43 black gang members arrested after boasting of murders on Facebook

These home boys made the homicide squad’s job easy. Reuters reports:

Police investigating three murders arrested 43 feuding New York gang members on Thursday based on evidence collected from monitoring what the gang members were saying about the cases on Twitter and Facebook, authorities said.

I’m not sure if this is what Bill Gates was thinking of when he said that making computers and the Internet widely available to disadvantaged minority youth would help them learn to read and write.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 20, 2012 12:24 PM | Send