Video helps police identify crime suspects

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January 25, 2018

Just because local police in Milwaukee, Wis. identified several criminal suspects with the help of a youtube rap video they appeared in, doesn't mean anything else in the video should be used as evidence in their prosecution, Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology, law and society, told CBS 58, a local news station in Milwaukee.

"In this particular case I would want to decouple the fact that this individual is a rapper (or he belongs in a rap group) and whatever criminal activity is taking place because even though they identified him through one of his rap videos, I really think rap and rap music is not central in this case," Kubrin told the station.

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