Cops Pull Ads From Gang Website

[HardOCP News]

The police have pulled recruitment ads that were mistakenly placed on websites with links to prominent gangs. I’m not sure what is worse, that the ads were placed or that gangs actually have websites.

Canada's renowned police force removed the ads after it learned the RCMP brand appeared alongside "inappropriate material that belonged to the 18th Street Gang," Sgt. Martin Blais, a media spokesman for the Mounties in Ottawa, said on Monday.

 

[Ockie]

Wouldn't it be good to have it there? It would chase them away from their own site and make them feel "watched".

Or it could be another benefit in that a gang member wants to be a cop?

Oh and a gang in Canada, lol! ...I couldn't resist...

 

[Exavior]

Let me see if I understand this correctly. The Canadian Mounties created ads to encourage people to sign up to become a Mounties. These ads made their way to some gang's site due to the gang's sites having ads displayed on them, and the Mounties decide to pull the ads thinking people will think that since their ads displayed on a gang site that they support the gang?


That makes no sense at all. First off, how would the average person ever see this? Does the average person view gang sites all day? Second why would anyone assume that anyway? How many people think ever ad they see on a banner is a suppor of that site? If I put a banner in Google ads then it will pop up where ever Google tells it to. Same for any other ad. If it was the case that one would assume they support them, wouldn't the same be true for all ads that appear on those gang sites?

Or am I missing something from this article?

 

[Ockie]

Let me see if I understand this correctly. The Canadian Mounties created ads to encourage people to sign up to become a Mounties. These ads made their way to some gang's site due to the gang's sites having ads displayed on them, and the Mounties decide to pull the ads thinking people will think that since their ads displayed on a gang site that they support the gang?


That makes no sense at all. First off, how would the average person ever see this? Does the average person view gang sites all day? Second why would anyone assume that anyway? How many people think ever ad they see on a banner is a suppor of that site? If I put a banner in Google ads then it will pop up where ever Google tells it to. Same for any other ad. If it was the case that one would assume they support them, wouldn't the same be true for all ads that appear on those gang sites?

Or am I missing something from this article?

I think thier concept is that if they can keep their ads off the gangs site, the gang can't profit from it... but the logic is flawed becuase a police banner on a gang site would produce almost next to no revenue...for the police or the site hosts.... so logically it would be wise to leave police banners on there.

Also, IMO i think that now they have given the gang a lot of credit and more people now knows about the site... also the fact that they have removed their banner, it gives more exposure for other sites... potentially bad sites such as gun sites, etc.

 

[Hazard]

Wouldn't it be good to have it there? It would chase them away from their own site and make them feel "watched".

Or it could be another benefit in that a gang member wants to be a cop?

Oh and a gang in Canada, lol! ...I couldn't resist...

Are we talking Infernal Affair / The Departed?

 

[piako]

Makes sense. The US gov't time and again recruits mentally ill people and gang members and non-US citizens to join the army. Heck there's a Army recruiting station in mexico city I hear.

 

[Farva]

Makes sense. The US gov't time and again recruits mentally ill people and gang members and non-US citizens to join the army. Heck there's a Army recruiting station in mexico city I hear.

Actually, you need to meet the minimum requirements to join the military and actually, if you look at recent people joining the military, you'd notice that it was middle and upper class, not the "lower class."