Attempts by the podcast team to route cases from the UK through to Interpol and other countries yielded no results, likely due to the game of ‘telephone’ such referrals go through. One case in India ended up informing the would-be-killer about his plot being discovered.
I would of course work with volunteers, but the work is stressful and brings you into contact with people unsafe situations and hostile and skeptical law enforcement. I guess it’s akin to being a social services worker. My limited attempts to do this has not yielded results.
‘I’ll help!’
<shares email of local police station>
Exposing this information gives ammunition to ruin lives, and it has. I remain anxious about sharing it with people who’s trustworthiness I can’t vouch for.
I felt like I should share my uninformed two cents.
Interpol seems like a promising lead, if you can get the right person at Interpol to understand the situation. I am not saying this is easy, but maybe you can get an email to be sent on your behalf on the right mailing lists (alumnis of some relevant school maybe?).
Other comments suggested getting funding from EA and that sounds fitting to me. But there is probably someone in EA that can connect you with Interpol directly. Maybe you can request to send a broad email on top of requesting funding.
Interpol (and Europol) doesn’t work for the public, only for incumbent law enforcement agencies.
Europol took explicit credit for one case, https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/dark-web-hitman-identified-through-crypto-analysis but that was actually overturned in the Italian courts years later.
Attempts by the podcast team to route cases from the UK through to Interpol and other countries yielded no results, likely due to the game of ‘telephone’ such referrals go through. One case in India ended up informing the would-be-killer about his plot being discovered.
I would of course work with volunteers, but the work is stressful and brings you into contact with people unsafe situations and hostile and skeptical law enforcement. I guess it’s akin to being a social services worker. My limited attempts to do this has not yielded results.
‘I’ll help!’
<shares email of local police station>
Exposing this information gives ammunition to ruin lives, and it has. I remain anxious about sharing it with people who’s trustworthiness I can’t vouch for.
I felt like I should share my uninformed two cents.
Interpol seems like a promising lead, if you can get the right person at Interpol to understand the situation. I am not saying this is easy, but maybe you can get an email to be sent on your behalf on the right mailing lists (alumnis of some relevant school maybe?).
Other comments suggested getting funding from EA and that sounds fitting to me. But there is probably someone in EA that can connect you with Interpol directly. Maybe you can request to send a broad email on top of requesting funding.