300 Word Crime Prevention Discussion

For this activity, you will visit Twitter (Links to an external site.) and click on the little magnifying glass on the top of the screen to reveal the search box to search Twitter. Then do the following:

• In the search box, type the words crime prevention, and click “Enter” on your keyboard to initiate a Twitter search.
• Scroll down the page and review some of the tweets that mention the term crime prevention. Choose two tweets that interest you that relate to a crime prevention program, law enforcement approach to crime prevention, research on crime prevention, etc. Please choose different tweets than those your classmates have chosen. Therefore, you may want to complete this activity early in the week to avoid duplicating your classmates’ chosen tweets.
• Share the links to the tweets in the discussion board. See below for further instructions on what to include in your discussion.
• If you do not have a Twitter account, simply click on the tweet and copy and paste the URL for the tweet. Share the link on the discussion board. See below for further instructions on what to include in your discussion.
• In addition to the links to the two tweets you chose, please address the following in your discussion:
  • Overall, what did you observe in reviewing the tweets from the Twitter search term “crime prevention?” For example, which agencies were tweeting about crime prevention? Were they primarily in the United States or abroad? Based on your review of the recent tweets (in the past six months), do you think that the United States seems to be focused on promoting crime prevention?
  • What specific topics in crime prevention did you find on Twitter? Were they regarding crime prevention research, theory, and/or practice?
  • If you were to tweet to your U.S. senators about the topic of crime prevention, what would you say? (Remember that you can use only 140 characters or less on Twitter so be clever in your “tweet” to your senators).

Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words in length. Please write mostly in your own words. Plagiarism will not be accepted. Support your initial post with examples from your required reading material and/or other sources. Please provide APA-style references at the end of your initial post.

PLEASE NOTE: I ATTACHED AN EXAMPLE OF THE FINISHED PRODUCT. PLEASE WRITE SOMETHING SIMILAR.