How do media know that a suspect has been arrested?
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From time to time, one reads reports in the media that a suspect has been arrested. I know that from time to time the police make a statement to the media that a suspect has been arrested (without naming the suspect), but I also know that this does not always happen. Does anybody, especially anybody who has any knowledge of the police and/or media, know how information about police investigations, especially arrests, is provided, by official or unofficial means, to the media, and how these stories tend subsequently to develop?
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It's all about the money,money,money.....
GUILTY even before coming to trial or before the investigation by the proper legal authority's over.
The recent JS case is a good example.
The police press officer releases a statement. There are no unofficial means. Some press speculate a lot.
The Witchfinder General would be proud.
Sorry, I could have been more clear. When I say "unofficial" I don't mean unofficial police sources, I mean information given, or even sold, to the media by neighbours, passers-by, family, friends, and colleagues of the suspect or of witnesses, and even corrupt witnesses. I think it unlikely that unofficial sources such as these do not exist. In fact, I *know* that they exist. Look at the arrest of Christopher Jefferies. Most, indeed almost all, of the information published by the media was sourced unofficially, not from police sources.
I'm not talking about trial by media. I just want to know how the information reaches the media.
If that person doesn't emerge from the police station after a certain length of time, as seen by reporters who are then assembled outside, they conclude the person must have been charged/not released on bail, or they get confirmation of that after pestering the sergeant.
He received substantial damages from the media. Once he was arrested the police said nothing.
You can't stop family and neighbours speculating and saying things, that's what the media rely on. They just hope they are right. Often they are not..
Look at the Philpots, what a huge support they had. Now charged with murder.
They don't.
The news tells you Eight newspapers paid damages.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jul/29/joanna-yeates-national-newspapers
Yes they do.
They don't release the name until they have been charged. The press may well name them though.
The Met police did, That's why some have been arrested and bailed.
If not, they just make it up (why else have all these 'allrgations' abouut JS come up?
iI'VE GOT BAD NEWS FOR THE NEWSPAPERS, I',M GOING ALONG WITH INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY (BY THE PROPER LEGAL AUTHORITIES)!!
No doubt they'll make somerthingh up about Me because I OPENLY DARE AND PUBLICLY DARE to dfsagree with them.
GOD HELP A TRIVIAL OFFENDER IF IT COMES DOWN TO TRIAL BY MEDIA!!
Again, to be more precise, I meant the specific officers with whom I have been working. I've had the opportunity to build up a good degree of trust with them, and I'd be very, very surprised were any of these specific officers to involve themselves in behaviour of that sort.
There've been budget cuts - he's now the Witchfinder Sergeant.
(I think that might belong to terry pratchett).
That was in 1960s films; they're all encrypted now. Err...I'm told.
The Police wont name anyone until they are charged.
Either that or he raped countless girls over several decades.:rolleyes:
He got quite a bit of compensation IIRC.
I knew someone 12 years ago whose hobby was listening in via a handheld scanner he kept in his car. It picked the police up perfectly, although sometimes the transmissions were scrambled, but even then some of it was audible, enough to determine addresses, and he had developed the 'ear' for it.
My mother had a Ferguson radio in the 70s with all manner of radio bands on it. It could pick up air traffic, shipping, the crystal oscillator inside the television in the next room so the TV sound came over the radio, and the local police.
But maybe things are different in 2012, if they've gone all digital.
Dont be so paranoid, how the hell do "they" know who you are