It was down to Winfield's uncle, who works in telecoms, to provide the evidence for the police in the form of an IP address, linked to the boy's home town of Dudley, for the emails sent to her from the AskFM account.
Leaving aside the question of from whence these so-called "good citizens" will be sourced, how they will be trained to deal with complex child-neglect cases, and what they would be paid (workfare, jobcentre, sod all, probs), I confess that the idea of Ofsted having its own secret breakfast police in the form of a milk-monitoring Stasi snooper squad does not fill me with reassurance.
De Blasio also promised a new era of policing, mainly in the form of retraining the nation's largest police force or at least 22,000 of its officers.
Following successful student actions in support of cleaning staff, "occupational-style protests" have recently been the subject of an injunction at the University of London, turning a civil matter criminal, and recent "Cops Off Campus" demos have seen a return of aggressive police tactics in the form of physical violence, kettling and mass police presence.
That possession of illegal substances and paraphernalia exacerbates police exploitation in the form of coerced sex provides much-needed guidance on police practices, and challenges a simplistic notion that the illegality of sex work alone enables abuse.
Indigenous women have long had a fraught relationship with American police – whether in the form of questionable fatal shootings or law enforcement inaction in the face of human trafficking crises and sexual assault epidemics.
But Parkman vanished, and only reappeared as the police asserted, in the form of bones found scattered about the laboratory.
Luke finds himself pursued by a steely police officer, in the form of Bradley Cooper, who's out to make a name for himself by catching this desperado.
As the Macedonian police waved a handful of exhausted refugees through from Greece, something snapped and hundreds rushed the lines, causing chaos and police retaliation in the form of beatings and volleys of stun grenades.
More than 3,000 allegations of hate crimes were made to UK police, mainly in the form of harassment and threats, in the week before and the week after the vote, a year-on-year increase of 42%.
