Comments on: Police want you to send in crime tips using text messages http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/03/police-want-you-to-send-in-crime-tips-using-text-messages/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:27:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Roadrunner http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/03/police-want-you-to-send-in-crime-tips-using-text-messages/#comment-757207 Roadrunner Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:27:01 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=29231#comment-757207 It seems to be working just fine here in South Africa. We usually try to combat crime with every means possible as it is unfortunately out of control. Our security industry must be the most advanced in the world. Here is the Website: https://www.crimeline.co.za/default.asp It seems to be working just fine here in South Africa. We usually try to combat crime with every means possible as it is unfortunately out of control. Our security industry must be the most advanced in the world.

Here is the Website:

https://www.crimeline.co.za/default.asp

]]> By: MobileFreak http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/03/police-want-you-to-send-in-crime-tips-using-text-messages/#comment-756654 MobileFreak Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:44:55 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=29231#comment-756654 Totally agree that they will get a ton of false positives for that exact reason. I guess they are willing to deal with 100 of those for every one that is legit if it bring people to justice. One other point - the police would get even more tips by text message if people could send them in anonymously. There's a free tool that let's you do that, with no registration required: http://www.mobilemammoth.com/send-text-message Totally agree that they will get a ton of false positives for that exact reason. I guess they are willing to deal with 100 of those for every one that is legit if it bring people to justice.

One other point - the police would get even more tips by text message if people could send them in anonymously. There’s a free tool that let’s you do that, with no registration required:
http://www.mobilemammoth.com/send-text-message

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