Technology is always advancing in numerous ways that we can not catch up on. This makes catching cyber criminals difficult to capture. Law enforcements have many challenges to face in order to catch a criminal. Criminals hide their identity, and this gives agencies a difficult time to catch the criminals. Cyberstalking, exploitation and obscenity gives law enforcements greatest challenges on anonymity and jurisdiction. Without the proper training and the proper resources, agencies have a challenge on solving internet crimes.
The greatest challenge: Anonymity
The internet has sensitive information about a person. Cyber criminals can access these websites and retrieve any information they need in order to target their next victim. One of the greatest challenges of exploitation, cyberstalking, and obscenity is anonymity. Anonymity gives the criminal the advantage of hiding their identity. The internet lets you create screen names to hide your identity, and you can create a fake profile with fake information about who they are. There was also an issue with the rise of internet Cafe’s. Criminals were able to use these Cafe’s to hide their exact location of where they could be. This is very misleading when it comes to law enforcements who are trying to find the perpetrator. Commander Dave Pettinari stated that “Knowing his or her victims are unable to identify the source of the harassment or threats makes the cyberstalker bolder, encouraging him or her to continue the harassment” The victim will never know who it is, and they will never really know where the criminal is. They can be next door, another state or even in another country. This gives law enforcement the biggest challenge because they can not pinpoint exactly who the criminal might be without sufficient evidence because they don’t want to charge the wrong person for the crime. With anonymity being the