Downloading pictures and copying text from a publicly accessible source, such as from a Facebook profile (that you have been allowed to view because the “owner” clicked “accept”) is not a crime.
As I am the resident Computer Crimes Specialist in my department, the Chief called me up to his office, where darn near everyone in my chain of command was present, and he assigned me directly to find out who this imposter was and string him up in every way legally possible. So suddenly, I was the one having the difficult and awkward conversation with the Chief (in front of everyone on who has direct influence over my career):
In the USA, people’s online activities are affairs protected from criminal prosecution by the First Amendment of the Constitution. That’s right: what you post, pictures you publish (provided they're not child porn), opinions you share, the name you say is yours, etc. etc. is a right that you have that all police officers in the USA are sworn to uphold. “Verifying the authenticity of an online profile” is not something the police do.
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
“The bottom line is, Chief— and I fear that I may get fired or demoted for saying so— but this heinous act against my commanding Lieutenant isn’t something that we, the police, have the power to pursue, because of the First Amendment.”
Without there being some kind of Court Order forbidding the behavior, sending unsolicited pictures of young, fit men in boxer shorts to anyone isn’t illegal.
I understood my Lieutenant’s pain, and also my Chief’s rage, and I appreciated how frustrating and embarrassing this was for my organization, so I was very pleased to have been able to add:
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Extreme Example:
My Lieutenant is not only the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division, he is also the commander of my department’s SWAT team. One day he decided to “try out” Facebook. He put up cool pictures from different SWAT callouts, training, and pictures of himself in various uniforms. And he wrote a decent Bio, made a couple of posts, clicked “accept” on the “friend request” notifications a lot… but after a fairly short time, he decided it was not really for him. So he killed his account & didn’t think much more of it.
Whatever happened next with that matter occurred outside the “know” of my pay grade. All I know for sure is that my Lieutenant didn’t get fired, I’m very glad I was not fired or demoted, and the constitution still protects people's rights to create and operate a fictitious online profile.
How could NASA possibly land on the moon when it's impossible to reach the moon through the Earth's dome? Why are they making up such an obvious lie?
Without an articulable crime, law enforcement is unable to obtain the Federal Grand Jury Subpoena required to compel Facebook to provide the specific information necessary to even begin to trace where the person is operating the fictitious Facebook account from.
Making a Facebook profile under a pretend name isn’t a crime, even if the person you’re pretending to be is a real person. You can’t go to JAIL for that, it isn’t a “police issue.”
Sending unsolicited, directed messages to someone isn’t a crime.
How can we understand the mind of a Trump supporter?
… However, if the department were to file a civil lawsuit against this mystery individual for something akin to Defamation of Character, “Facebook” could be named as a co-defendant and might be willing to provide the information we need… and then repeat the process to compel the Internet Service Provider Mr. Imposter subscribes to to disclose the street address and billing information of whoever pays for the service there. (If it came back to a smartphone, we’d have him virtually dead to rights.)
Unbeknownst to him, one of the people he clicked “accept” on was some “cop wannabe” who had been harvesting my Lieutenant’s photos and consumed everything that was posted on his page. When my Lieutenant deleted his account, this mystery person created a NEW Facebook profile using my Lieutenant’s name, RE-populated the page with all of the content he took from the original, and began impersonating my Lieutenant. My Lieutenant learned of this when he was confronted by the parent of a 17-year-old boy in a neighboring town, this parent furiously took issue with the very inappropriate pictures of near-naked men that were being “direct messaged” to that boy by the person impersonating my Lieutenant. My Lieutenant immediately went in to have a very difficult & awkward conversation with the Chief of Police.
