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NYPD’s Twitter request for photos backfires
- Ryel 13y agoVitriolic propaganda on social media is far worse than aggressive NYPD officers.
- coherentpony 13y agoWoah there, Stalin. I'd hardly call transparency 'vitriolic propaganda'.
- mikeash 13y agoWelcome to Hacker News, where a spontaneous public outcry is considered fascism.
- lallysingh 13y agoDoes NYPD think that they're well liked?
- md224 13y agoDoes a 60% approval rating count as well liked? http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=1880 http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-univers...
- Crito 13y agoIt could have been a 95% approval rate and I still would have told you this campaign would backfire like this. The minority that dislike the police include many activist groups; if there is anything these activist groups are capable of doing and have the motivation to carry out, it is causing a shitfest on twitter. Even if you write off those activists as "slacktivists", social media is still their game.
- Ryel 13y agoNYPD stations 2 cops on every block of my neighborhood. They're the only reason I can get chinese food at 2am. They are very well liked here.
- joe_inferno 13y agoWell, as long as 2 am Chinese food is more valuable than a street drug deal with a slight chance of violence
- icambron 13y agoFor the curious, the request was to share pictures under the hashtag #MyNYPD [1]. The hashtag now mostly consists of meta discussion and news coverage, but there have been a lot of police brutality pictures with that tag. [1] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MyNYPD https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MyNYPD