Passage 2 New words c omb v. 彻底搜寻 o ffender n. 罪犯 r obbery n. 抢劫 r ioting n. r ioter n. 参加者;聚众闹事者 The New York Police Department (NYPD) announced it will form a new unit to search social media as part of the combined efforts against criminals. This is an official 1) to criminals' growing use of some websites to plan and celebrate 2) achievements. A Police Chief, Kevin O'Connor, is 3) an NYPD unit created specifically to comb social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger for information on planned crimes and their offenders. The efforts against criminals have linked social media to increasing incidents of robberies in the United States and the recent rioting in London. Public safety agencies are 4) looking to step up their efforts in order to better protect citizens against these trends. In the London riots in particular, the police suspect the rioters 5) BlackBerry Messenger to coordinate and plan their riots. Police there are working with BlackBerry Messenger to identify those messages that are 6) burning and robbing London stores. BlackBerry Messenger and other smartphone messaging services make it hard for the police to 7) criminal activity, especially if they aren't as 8) the technology as the offenders are. The NYPD unit intends to educate officers about such technology to 9) this defect. For social media providers and smartphone makers, the criminals' preference for their products is putting them in the sticky position of determining how to assist police efforts without 10) lawful customers' privacy.