Facilitating Law Enforcers in Finding Data
Netizens' expertise in exploring social media timelines on someone's personal account is undeniable. Posts from previous years, the perpetrator's personal data, the chronology of events, the victim's condition, even the process of the crime occurring can all be searched and found in a short time. No wonder, if "the power of netizen" greatly helps law enforcers in collecting the data and information needed for the investigation process. In fact, it is not uncommon for the discovery of missing people or goods to be found first by netizens. Apart from that, it should be noted that not all news from netizens is true. It is not uncommon for the information to be hoaxes and gimmicks. So it must be researched and investigated further by law enforcers, especially police officers who are the first figures in the legal processing stage.
Influence on Decisions Taken
The more viral the case, the crazier the actions of netizens. This is indicated to affect the existence of law enforcers, including judges, in making decisions. Although not openly, posts of partiality on social media will affect judges as ordinary human beings. Basically, something that goes viral is a combination of real events and netizens' perceptions. The impact is another difficulty in determining which decision is right to implement with various diverse considerations.
Various consequences of the rampant virality in the current era greatly affect the judicial process and even law enforcers, such as helping the judicial process run quickly so that the police only continue the work of amazing netizens. However, not all good things are obtained from this viral method, if you are not careful in giving opinions and prejudices, it will cause slander, vigilantism, pressure on perpetrators, privacy breaches, hoax news, and others. Therefore, awareness is needed from various groups to be wise in using social media for community involvement (civic engagementcivic engagement
) in helping each other.It is also hoped that law enforcers will evaluate their performance in handling legal cases, not meaning to allow the public to be the controller of the law. Law enforcers should improve themselves because after all the hashtag "no viral no justice
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