Cyber Crimes At Tulsa Police Department

The Growing Issue of Cyber Crimes at Tulsa Police Department The world today relies heavily on the use of numerous electronics to keep everything running smoothly. No matter where one goes, there is some sort of technology that has extra effects in life. Technology become dependent to everyone and everything. At the same time that the world has become overly dependent on technology, criminals have taken advantage of the situation to use it for their benefit committing crimes easier and in many cases the victims can unknowingly make themselves targets simply by not protecting their presence in this technology based world. As technology grows, cybercrime grow as well, and it should prevail in the steps and precautions taken to prevent it

According to News9, detectives had investigated hacked pages in the social media, among other things, but by far, child pornography cases keep them the busiest. On November 2014, Kevin Smith was charged for kidnapping and sexual assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Glenpool (14 miles away from Tulsa). Smith served several years in federal prison for having nearly 300 child porn pictures and 143 videos, most of them involved children. Detective Malcom Williams assume, "At some point just mere looking at it is not going to continue to gratify you, sustain what it is. In my opinion, you have to be sick if that's what you're looking at, so we take all these cases seriously.". Other case where Smith was accused was when he tried to lure two girls into his car, but by the end, he was not charged for that incident. Police say they have more crimes to attend so they always put the most serious cases at the top of their

There are many crimes that cannot happen without the other. Cybercrime is going to continue growing into a huge dilemma over time and if the laws do not grow along with the technology advances, then there is not going to be anything left that can be done to prevent cybercrime. This issue has the capacity to hurt individuals in distinct ways. Every single day children become victims of child abuse and child porn. Everybody will be helped, but is a process. However, if we want to see tremendous changes, we must begin to set the example for oneself first. Only if we were in the same situation as of Loerke and Smith victims, we could feel their impotence and their fear of being victimized of countless