Ohio Police Agency Searches Facebook for Fugitives - WJW

A police department is bringing the old practice of putting wanted pictures on post office walls up to date by including mug shots of fugitives on its Facebook page.

[r_u_nutz]

Cool, I'm on facebook also.. Need any help tracking people down?

[bob]

So how do you know if the facebook page is real or not...the internet is anonymous, this creates lots of overhead and more work its not officiant at the least yet a lead is a lead.

[r_u_nutz]

bob wrote:

So how do you know if the facebook page is real or not...the internet is anonymous, this creates lots of overhead and more work its not officiant at the least yet a lead is a lead.

Well in short, you don't.. But alot of times people will post their pix on the site, in addition to associating with the same people through the site which shows their friends also.. So I would say once they "think" they may have found their suspect, they probably use photo matching to identify.. Just my theory though!