On the dawn of its 60th birthday, the FBI’s infamous Most-Wanted List is trying something new: social media. The Bureau is using popular crowd-sourcing technologies to launch its e-mail distribution list of 150,000, Facebook presence, and Twitter efforts. The list can even be found on an iPhone app, which features the pictures of most-wanted criminals, top terrorism escapees, and missing children. A quick press of a button releases GPS coordinates to the FBI. “The modern FBI is living off the coattails of J. Edgar Hoover’s work when it comes to the recognition of the list,” Larry Karson, a retired Customs Service agent and now criminal justice lecturer, says in a Houston Chronicle article. “The real story is, how will the FBI and other law enforcement agencies and the government learn to connect with the population in the 21st century?”
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