Reply #4: For the benefit of anyone unaware.

[dipsydoodle]

Its where it has been proven that use of social media was used to organise/further a crime that simple breaking and entering has become the offence of aggravated burglary. Difference between the two is a wrist slap as opposed to a maximum 10 year sentence.

Unused footage - no real need. The public have been handing over their mobile phone pictures to the police to help identify looters and arsonists. That was how the guy who fired Miss Selfridge in Manchester was caught so quickly.

More serious issues are afoot too. At least two councils, Salford and Greenwich , have threatened to evict any tenants found guilty of helping destroy their own council areas / communities.