 Crowdsourcing Crime Prevention: Simply Helping Out Urban Local Dudes Report Anonymously or Tweet Crimes or Suspicious Activity for Law Enforcement and/or Public Awareness of Danger. Where the Criminals are Afraid of the Citizens, Not the Other Way Around. Sponsorship Opportunities Available. Be Part of the Solution. Reporting Evidence of A Crime Anonymously We get it, reporting evidence of a crime is a risky thing. But if your conscience is gnawing at you to "do the right thing," we make it easy and safe to get key text/photo/video/audio evidence to authorities completely anonymously. We won't even know who or where you are sending it to us from. Don't provide self-identification in your e-mail or attached file, unless you want to be known (we won't edit it out, if you forget to, but we will take down libelous, non-factual posts at our discretion.)  The evidence will get posted to the Local ShouldRat Blog and Twitter feed and may get picked up by the State and National Twitter feeds. Besides the public's interest, we encourage appropriate law enforcement officials to subscribe to the applicable ShouldRat Blog and Twitter feed as they see fit. If they contact you, it will not be through us, rather their subsequent investigation based on the evidence you provide. Law Enforcement Resources Although the text/photo/video/audio evidence provided has no traceable chain of custody, it may prove useful probable cause for identifying suspect(s) and conducting further investigation otherwise unknown or even unknowable without it. As stated above, we won't know who or where the source is, but we will fully comply with Law Enforcement officials to the extent required by law. Our goal is to make your job easier, not harder. Sponsors Welcome Community Support Safe communities are good for business. We hope that your local business would be willing to offer discount coupons to our visitors in return for their assistance in helping solve local crimes.  The discount coupons are only redeemable when someone shares the ShoudRat Twitter post.  We will explore options to enable the anonymous evidence provider to have a unique code, which the sponsor can increase the discount substantially to reward them privately* for "doing the right thing." * The sponsor can choose to honor the anonymity of the coded discount redeemer or cooperate with appropriate authorities, ShouldRat would not be knowledgeable of that transaction. Advertisers High Visibility Internet advertising can be effective, if the viewers feel that purchasing from that local business is helping the community. Whether or not your motivation is to help reduce local crime or just get the best value for your advertising budget, ShouldRat will naturally attract a lot of local community interest. The residual goodwill from local customers and community leaders for your assistance in making your community safer is only going to improve your bottom line. |  |