<story><title>Tracing child abusers: Where was this picture taken? [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-47660347/tracing-child-abusers-where-was-this-picture-taken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>I was able to see a presentation about this topic one time by ICE. It tragic in two senses:&lt;p&gt;1) The crimes themselves are absolutely intolerable to society.&lt;p&gt;2) The lack of serious resourcing the seriousness of this crime should warrant.&lt;p&gt;Part of the presentation was specifically on identifying the location a sequence of photos was taken in the hopes that it would narrow down the search radius for the offender. The team that did the work were members of the ICE HERO program -- one of the coolest veteran-to-civilian programs I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen [1][2]. The folks literally spent weeks &amp;quot;driving&amp;quot; around likely areas in Google maps trying to identify the location. Because the photo was taken from an angle that the car wouldn&amp;#x27;t have seen, they weren&amp;#x27;t able to use any automation at all and it literally took a human&amp;#x27;s intuitive understanding of 3-D spaces to eventually figure it out.&lt;p&gt;However, what was really tough was that the HERO program only exists because it offers an internship that costs very little to DHS -- they simply can&amp;#x27;t afford a large group of full-time staff.&lt;p&gt;I urge anybody who can to petition to better fund anti-child abuse programs.&lt;p&gt;1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ice.gov&amp;#x2F;hero&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ice.gov&amp;#x2F;hero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 - &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.herocorps.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.herocorps.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Tracing child abusers: Where was this picture taken? [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-47660347/tracing-child-abusers-where-was-this-picture-taken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Snoozus</author><text>Here the direct link to the picture database &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.europol.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;stopchildabuse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.europol.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;stopchildabuse&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>