The New York Police Department (NYPD) announced it will form a new unit to search social media as part of the combined efforts against criminals. This is an official 1)____to criminals growing use of some websites to plan and celebrate 2)____achievements. A police chief, Kevin O'Connor, is 3)____an NYPD unit created specifically to comb social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and BlackBerry Messenger for information on planned crimes and their offenders. Public safety agencies are 4)____ looking to step up their efforts in order to better protect citizens against these trends. In the London riots in particular, the police suspect the rioters 5) ____ BlackBerry Messenger to coordinate and plan their riots. Police there are working with BlackBerry Messenger to identify those messages that are 6) ____ burning and robbing London stores. BlackBerry Messenger and other smartphone messaging services make it hard for the police to 7) _______ criminal activity, especially if they aren't as 8) ______ the technology as the offenders are. The NYPD unit intends to educate officers about such technology to 9) ____ this defect. For social media providers and smartphone makers, the criminals 5 preference for their products is putting them in the sticky position of determining how to assist police efforts without 10) ____ lawful customers' privacy.The efforts against criminals have linked social media to increasing incidents of robberies in the United States and the recent rioting in London.