Picaz October 02, 2017 at 11:58PM

The shooting in Las Vegas, and on pictures of the scenes and the suspect

In the wake of an atrocity in Las Vegas on Sunday night, we'd like to show our respect for the victims and everyone who love them.We've now seen many pictures posted here that hurt us to see. We hope that you respect and honour the victims and survivors by sharing pictures of them when they were alive and well. Our subreddit is about things like this.We'd also like to talk about our policy of allowing pictures of confirmed and alleged suspects of major acts of crime and terrorism. Much of this emerged after the mis-identification of the Boston Marathon bombers of 2013.We don't want something terrible to be followed with a mistake that makes it worse, so we're going to follow a simple policy: we will not allow pictures of crime or terrorism suspects unless at least three major news outlets have published the same picture, and identified the same person, along with citations from the relevant police agencies that confirm it.One of our most important rules is designed to prevent harm to innocent people who are incorrectly identified in the first few hours of an insult to decency, such as what happened on Sunday night. Sometimes the news is premature. It happens. But it's important not to excite it out of control.To start, the major news outlets that we will consider as confirmation sources are, alphabetically: ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, The Guardian, The Independent, MSNBC/NBC, The New York Times, The Telegraph, and The Washington Post.We would like you to tell us about other outlets we can use to verify an official police identification of a suspect. We are mainly concerned with confirmations from involved police investigators, so this can also include official sites of those agencies.After the first 12 hours, we will consider any further posts of the same picture to be a stock photo that we will remove for Rule 4. We will also enforce Rule 4 for posts that use the picture as an anchor for something editorial in the title, but don't directly describe what's happening in the picture itself. You can see our rules for post titles here.Nothing warrants what happened in Las Vegas. Let's be sure nothing further harms anyone more than those already.For those in Las Vegas, and those connected to them, we can't begin to imagine what you're going through.


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