US EditionUse of hashtags, emojis and identities; so are the "attractive" offers of organized crime to recruit children
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Recently it was revealed that organized crime uses social networks to recruit children and young people, such is the case of “El Pochis”, who at the age of 14 was recruited. According to an investigation, organized crime is building identities in networks and using emojis, hashtags and keywords to identify violence groups. adn40 Always Conmigo. Subscribe to our WhatsApp channel and bring information in the palm of your hand. Organized crime recr…
8-ball emojis and the promise of money: How children are being drawn into county lines gangs - Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner for Surrey
CHILDREN are being recruited into county lines drug dealing gangs by criminals aided by the use a “new” form of language that parents won’t necessarily recognise, Surrey’s Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner says. In an interview on BBC Radio Surrey, Ellie Vesey-Thompson said young people exploited by gangs to ferry drugs are often communicating using emojis. Surrey Police has previously warned that some emojis – such as the snowflake, the 8-ba…
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