Cyber-policing
In Porirua, New Zealand, the thin blue line has turned into the thin blue URL in the fight against crime. Police have decided to enlist the use of a website as a way to undermine the local Mongrel Mob gang. So far they’ve yet to receive any tip offs, and they’ve mostly gotten e-mails about traffic problems, but they’re finding it a very, very useful exercise – if not “a little avant-garde” for one of Wellington’s less affluent suburbs.
