http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Stanley+Riot+Most+elusive+suspect+finally+arrested/7304274/story.html
"After a cross-country hunt, cops arrested their “most-elusive”
Stanley Cup riot suspect, found working at a Saskatchewan potash mine.
Clad
in Canucks garb on June 15, 2011, the suspect was labelled by the
Integrated Riot Investigation Team as IRIT No. 1. His image was the
first posted on a website used to identify alleged rioters.
Still
unable to identify this suspect at the first-year anniversary of the
riot in June, IRIT re-posted the suspect’s image on a top-10 wanted
poster.
And Wednesday — after a search involving officers in
Manitoba, Newfoundland and Saskatchewan — Jonathan Stephen Mahoney
finally arrived back in B.C. to face justice."
You may remember after the riots that the Vancouver police asked help from the public to identify those who participated in the riots that destroyed a lot of property and caused injuries. The public responded massively by sending in photos and video they had taken on cell phones and other devices. Other publics then helped identify people from the photos posted on the police web site. Dozens of arrests followed, thanks to simple cooperation between the police and the community over the internet.
Internet Collective Action is people organizing in a nonhierarchical manner to accomplish a particular goal. The reward is in the doing, and how much or how little anyone participates is completely voluntary, depending on their abilities and commitment to the goal. By this process amazing things can be accomplished. ICA will grow so long as the Internet is free. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/pc.htm is an example of ICA.
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