Today, in a greater effort to protect and serve, the Lockport Police Department posted a question to its Facebook page. Perhaps unaware of the social media storm that ensued after the New York Police Department asked Twitter users to post photos using the #MyNYPD hashtag in April, Lockport PD wondered:

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