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Monday, July 9, 2012

Police Use YouTube to Solve Crimes

In a growing trend, police departments around the country are using YouTube to catch criminals.

Social media has been incorporated into almost everything today – phones, news, businesses, politics. Now, police work can be added to that list.  NBC reported that police departments across the country are turning to social media, and specifically YouTube, to help solve crimes.  In Prince George’s County, NBC reports that police use YouTube as their own television channel to reach people directly. The department will often post full news conferences online with surveillance video and mug shots to get the information out to the public, Julie Parker, the spokesman for the Prince George’s County Police Department, told NBC. After a flash mob robbed a Germantown 7-Eleven, Montgomery County police posted the surveillance video on YouTube, and …

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UPDATED: Flash Mob Theft Reported at Germantown 7-Eleven (in Germantown Patch)

Monday, May 23, 2011

From Hyattsville to Hollywood

Local filmmaker awarded YouTube's "NextUp" grant.

When he was young, filmmaker Matt Kovalakides used to play in the woods in College Park with his friends, toting BB guns and making war films for fun. The scene has changed somewhat, and the set is decidedly more laid back. But Kovalakides, a Hyattsville native, has carried on with his dream of making videos. The L.A. resident was one of YouTube's first "NextUp" grant recipients—one of 25 selected nationally to receive $35,000 to advance their YouTube careers, mentoring from YouTube and global promotion of their videos across the YouTube Network. Until last year, the DeMatha Catholic High School graduate was working as a cameraman and video editor and doing odd jobs as a freelancer in L.A. “YouTube was a side thing I did,” he said, adding …

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DeMatha Catholic High Schoool (in Hyattsville Patch), You Ask, Leaders Answer (in Hyattsville Patch), and Fire Company Opens Doors (in Hyattsville Patch)

Carol Cron

11:08 am on Wednesday, May 25, 2011

This is so awesome! I have several pictures of Matt at the HVFD with my boys -- younger than him, of course -- wearing his fire coat and hat! We knew Matt would be big in film some day!   more ›

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