RateMyCop.com

RateMyCop.com is a review site that allows American citizens to give feedback on police officers. The website was launched on February 28, 2008 by Gino Sesto and Rebecca Costell of Culver City, California. The site launched with over the names of over 140,000 police officers from more than 500 police departments in the United States.

Shutdown Controversy

On March 11, 2008, Go Daddy shut down RateMyCop.com after complaints from police officers. After being contacted about the shutdown, GoDaddy responded that it was due to "suspicious activity". However, the owner of the site was later told by GoDaddy that the site was shut down for reaching its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, although doubt has been expressed about the second explanation as the site had only 80,000 connected users that day and 400,000 the previous day.

User Interaction

Ratemycop.com has user forums where people can participate in discussions (in addition to rating their experiences with a total of 2 police officers per week).

RateMyCop.com's Forums

• Ask A Police Officer
• General Discussion
• Officers in the news (Good)
• Officers in the news (Bad)
• Praise your police
• Criticize your police

External links

• RateMyCop.com - Official site
• Rated Cop - Example of a rated cop