woop01 - 8:44 pm on Aug 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

It would be considered a crime in a lot of places but unfortunately most places won’t prosecute anything related to online activity and will bend over backward to say it’s not their jurisdiction.

Obviously a different case but a great example was a time I was being harassed by phone by a kid (I banned him from one of my sites for harassing users) in Houston while I was in San Antonio. The San Antonio police said I needed to call Houston police. The Houston police said I wasn’t actually in Houston when I got the calls so it should be handled by San Antonio police. However, if I were to drive to Houston and get a call they could handle it. They finally suggested I get a police report from the San Antonio police and have them fax it and they might be able to do something. The San Antonio police refused to take a police report because the kid was making the calls from Houston.

From what I’ve heard, that’s typical of the kind of run around you get from authorities. They simply don’t want to deal with it. New Jersey should be commended for actually stepping up and being willing to enforce the law. It’s just unfortunate that seeing a police task force do their job is out of the ordinary.