Older Men In Stylish Uniforms And Cars Want To Friend Your Kids

Wouldn’t you know it: The Bensalem Police Department has a Myspace page. Yes, and by 2016 they’ll have a Facebook, too.

The idea, KYW 1060 reports, is that kids will become friends with the Bensalem Police Department, and then creepy online cyber pedophiles will not contact them. Sounds great, of course, except that, um, don’t all online crimes like that require two participants? A kid whose #1 friend is the police force is not going to be meeting up for illicit sex with a 35-year-old either, no?

Eh, whatever. Can’t hurt, I suppose. Let’s see what Bensalem public safety director Fred Harran had to say about it to KYW:

He calls it simple crime prevention — the same way police tell adults to protect their cars with alarms and clubs: “When you go to their Myspace account and you see the Bensalem police pop up as their number one friend, a pedophile or somebody that’s trying to do some gang recruitment, cyber-bullying, or maybe drug dealing or any other crimes that’s going on on the Internet right now, they’re likely to see the police icon on there and get off the page.”

Harran stresses that in no way will they be spying on kids on their pages. He says the department is always adding to its Myspace page to make it more attractive for children.

To make it more attractive for children, huh? Sounds like something the gang recruiters could learn from the police department’s page and use it to bring our children into a life of crime and pedphilies, who also now apparently sell drugs on Myspace (with delivery through a USB cable).

Bensalem Police Department Urges Kids to Use Them as ”Myspace” Friends [KYW 1060]