Seattle residents recently got a barrage of crime-related tweets as part of an experiment by the Seattle Police Department, which sought to improve its perception and increase public engagement by showing the wide range of challenges officers have to face each day.
Over the course of 12 hours, the police tweeted nearly every emergency call they received, averaging 40 tweets per hour. By the end of the experiment, the public had been flooded with 478 crime-related tweets.
The reports ran ...