MA Police Departments - Now Leveraging Social Media

Kate Nagle, GoLocalWorcester News Contributor

The game changed for how the police announce important news events last month in Boston. While nearly every news organization was rushing to break the story of the arrest of Suspect #2, it was the Twitter account of the Boston Police Department that upstaged the media and told the world that "Suspect is in Custody."

From that point on the relationship between public safety and social media changed  -- and the public changed forever. GoLocalWorcester takes an in-depth look at how many social media relationships each of the Central MA cities and towns have on Facebook and Twitter and how they use those tools to communicate.