I doubt this was set up by facebook. I imagine that one of the techie cops did this. I also imagine any techie cop at PAPD or anywhere else could do the same.

Please don't suggest this, any IT this City invests in seems to cost them in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

What happened to Peak Democracy? It cost mucho bucks to set up and has now disappeared.

I like the story on their Facebook page about the guy who took a computer filled with child porn to a repair shop. The computer repair guy ratted him out and now he is facing 10 years in Federal prison.

I bet our friends at Facebook would be glad to set up the PAPD with something like this for FREE.

I respect law enforcement but there are plenty of people who don't. Apparently, at public PAPD meetings, they have a fair amount of citizens who attend to insult and complain. I'd be concerned that this negative feedback would occur on FB too.

Did Palo Alto just push out their city wide Facebook page? Some departments have FB pages, so I would not be surpised to see other departments like police and fire to step into social media soon. The adminstrator can decide how and if to allow comments to prevent too much abuse.

Public officials are paid to have a thick skin.

PAPD's official Facebook page is located at Web Link

According to the site, you can join as a friend, but they are still developing the site.

PAPD also has a Twitter account. You can follow them now but that site is under contruction as well. That Twitter accout can be found at Web Link