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Police urge text-message crime tips
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
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July 3, 2008
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TAMPA, Fla. -- Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a
dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an
increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their
thumbs -- to identify criminals using text messages.
Police hope the idea helps recruit teens and 20-somethings who
wouldn't normally dial a Crime Stoppers hotline to share information
with authorities.
"If somebody hears Johnny is going to bring a gun to school,
hopefully they'll text that in," said Sgt. Brian Bernardi of the
Louisville, Ky., Metro Police Department, which rolled out its text-
message tip line in June.
Departments in Boston and Cincinnati started accepting anonymous
text tips about a ...
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