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Police location sites on Facebook are helping drivers avoid detection for drug driving

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Police location sites on Facebook are helping drivers avoid detection for drug driving
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.tven99tfu
Authors

Mills, Laura, Truelove, Verity, Freeman, James

Abstract

Our results suggest police location groups and pages on Facebook are helping drivers avoid detection for drug driving - with potentially fatal consequences.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2022.
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