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Cops and Myspace
October 13, 2006Well...in case you haven't heard.
A Wichita Falls cop was fired because of the objectionable content on his personal Myspace page.
And quickly enough...the story has spread...everywhere.
A quick Google News search finds the story on several news websites from Seattle, Houston, Pittsburg, Buisness Week.com, The Drudge Report...even the Guardian Unlimited (a UK news website).
Forbes, Calgary, USA Today, Sydney Morning Herald in Australia, even the Officer.com (Law Enforcement news website)
All in all...about 250 news websites have picked up the AP story that pretty much started with TRN reporter Robert Morgan.
"What the heck is going on in Wichita Falls?" Can't you just hear that question being asked all over the world. Once again...probably not the image that we'd like to project around here.
A serial-killer claiming cop with photos of dismembered bodies on a public networking website with more than 100 million users world-wide.
I gotta say, I don't disagree with the choice to fire this guy..as long as he was formally asked to remove that kind of content. Actually, the police probably could have had it removed it they would have contacted Myspace.
But, I'm sure there's more to the story than they are saying. No telling how many cases this cop was involved in are in jeopardy now. Kinda hard to paint a "good cop" image to a jury when the defense has that kind of ammo.
And now the entire world can read about the dirty laundry on the internet.
I already did...now I have to go check my own myspace page.
Posted by Jason Palmer at 12:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
