Automatic weapons.
Do that twice and you won't ever see another flash mob.
Most of these mobs are not from social networks, but from text msgs, so I think only the NSA has the technology needed to do what you are asking.I doubt they’d use that tech for this problem, and even if they did a real 4th amendment question would arise..I think the best course is back to basic beat cop techniques.Observation, CIs,citizen tips.Your suggestion about an alert system, akin to Amber Alerts is one that could be done once the info is verified.
Facebook and Twitter would probably be the two biggest sites for these activities.
I don’t know how fast flashmobs can organize themselves, but probably pretty quick since Facebook and twitter send updates to your phone.
I don’t think anybody can stop them, except at the door.
Why do they keep calling them flash mobs? Flash mobs are the nice little groups that surprise everyone at malls and other public venues with cheerful songs and dances. Another good thing bastardized by the left.
In answer to question #3: “Is there any way that signs/etc. could be placed ahead of time to warn people from info posted on the net?”, may I suggest that the Founders already provided an answer.
It may be found in the Second Amendment.
Victims are unarmed sheep vulnerable to tyranny.
Armed citizens are not mere ‘sheeple’.
Easy. You get the Federal Govenment to monitor (i.e. read) every single email, tweet, and facebook posting that travels on the internet, as well as every cell phone conversation and text message that travels the airwaves.
Short of that, no there is no way to 'monitor' flash mobs. A flash mob is simply a group of people that know each other ahead of time, and can contact each other through email, twitter, facebook, or some other means common to the group.
For example, I could post here on F.R. that all FReepers in the D.C. area should meet under the Washington Monument at noon tomorrow, and unless your 'service' actively monitored Free Republic, they'd never catch it.
Some of the hoodlum flash mobs are probably arranged through cell phone text messages, so no private company could possibly monitor that activity.
Mostly done with text. Very hard to trace in real time.
One poster suggested that mass riots could break out near elections giving "The Divine One" an excuse to cancel an pending election.
Greetings struggle:
Today, Glenn Beck was discussing the ‘tweets’ from the group of tolerant liberals who bothered his family in the NYC park last weekend.
The person seated behind Beck tweeted something rude about sitting behind Beck. Someone tweeted back suggesting the person behind Beck’s family should ‘accidentally’ spill something on them. Moments later, his wife had wine spilled upon her back.
Beck was saying this stuff gets posted on line some where, it doesn’t go away.
While I know a lot about technology, there is far more that I don’t know. Hoping this thread eventually answers that question.
Cheers,
OLA
These do well against mobs.For someone to inform law enforcement of one of these impending, they would have to do it for money, because it won’t be out of conscience. This is social justice.
Keep in mind these kids also text in code. Many of the profiles on some of the gangsta friendly sites write in a language that is as foreign as you can get. I won’t post a link the one site I had in mind, since the profiles will attack your computer with viruses.
It is called Bebo for those who have some beefy anti intrusion software.