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摘要

A long with the cap and baton, the little police notebook is one of the more familiar law enforcement accessories, but, in the Web 2.0 age, paper and pencil is often not enough to fight crime. Law enforcement agencies are using more and more technological tools to help them catch the bad guys. But, like any less-than-tech-savvy workforce switching to new high-falutin' software, there have been bumps along the way. Read on to learn crib the lessons learned by the crimefighters. Lieutenant Chuck Cohen leads up the criminal intelligence and special investigation unit for the Indiana State Police and speaks across the United States to front-line law enforcement officers about the importance of using technology in their jobs, Increasingly, he says, parts of cases will be online or Internet-based in some way. "A lot of evidence is stored in electronic media," he points out. This can be anything from clues on MySpace about where a body is buried (like in the widely- reported Taylor Behl case) to LiveJournal or Facebook entries being used to show a suspect's true character, says Cohen.