Ohio police chief brings crime control to social media

A police chief in small-town Ohio is typing out his no-nonsense stance against crime one Facebook post at a time.

Chief David Oliver of the Brimfield Police Department ensures suspects receive more than a trial. They also get a public flogging, courtesy of a Facebook page where the chief reports criminal activity in his signature style, calling suspects "mopes."

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In one of his recent posts, Oliver wrote about two teenage girls who had been smoking meth and seemed deeply in need of help and guidance. He criticized one of the unidentified girls' mothers for refusing to pick her up.

"Shame on you," he wrote. "I'm talking about a young teen girl who was strung out and REALLY needed to see her mom. We talked to her instead...We heard about her life, her mistakes and her dreams."

Chief Oliver's social media efforts have brought him more than 50,000 fans on Facebook, a spot in the international media spotlight and a book deal, according to a recent post.

Locals told the Associated Press they enjoyed following Oliver's posts about silly crimes and seeing the big, bold personality behind their local law enforcement. But he isn't without critics; comments on the page sometimes say he's wasting taxpayer dollars or unfairly mocking suspects on a public forum before they're convicted.

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To them, he said to find some other reading material, adding that calling him fat isn't a valid argument against his social media crime-fighting ways.

And don't get him started on parking violations.