{"id":115991,"date":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usustatesman.com\/?p=115991"},"modified":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"selfie-police-a-chance-to-be-selfless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/selfie-police-a-chance-to-be-selfless\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfie Police: a chance to be selfless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"imported-author\">Noelle Johansen, staff writer<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Some people take them daily, hourly or every few minutes. Others wait for a colorful background or wardrobe change. Yet others find them tasteless, vain and unnecessary.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">What are they? They&#8217;re <span data-scayt_word=\"selfies\" data-scaytid=\"1\">selfies<\/span> &#8211; and they are everywhere.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">But what if <span data-scayt_word=\"selfies\" data-scaytid=\"2\">selfies<\/span> suddenly became a very selfless option?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">That&#8217;s the goal of the <span data-scayt_word=\"Selfie\" data-scaytid=\"3\">Selfie<\/span> Police, a new social trend created by Chas Barton, 24, and Dustin Locke, 25, by inviting <span data-scayt_word=\"selfie\" data-scaytid=\"4\">selfie<\/span> takers to fine themselves $1 per <span data-scayt_word=\"selfie\" data-scaytid=\"5\">selfie<\/span>. Every dollar raised goes to <span data-scayt_word=\"Vittana\" data-scaytid=\"6\">Vittana<\/span>, a non-profit organization that provides micro-loans to college students in Third World countries, Barton said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Barton and Locke formulated the idea in a 24-hour creativity competition at BYU a year ago, Locke said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;We talked until three in the morning, went to bed, came back in the morning,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We kind of hit at the idea all day and couldn&#8217;t think of anything. Then, about two hours before pitch time, we thought of the idea.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">They took second place in the competition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Locke said the idea of the competition was to connect nonprofit Vittana with the Millennial generation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;Selfies are a very Millennial thing and getting kids to college is a very Millennial thing,&#8221; Locke said. &#8220;So we&#8217;re connecting people with similar interests, just in very different places.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The idea did not develop into something concrete for several months until selfies began to take over social media, Locke said. The Oxford Dictionary named &#8220;selfie&#8221; the word of the year for 2013. Oxford Dictionary defines a selfie as a picture taken of oneself, by oneself and generally uploaded to various platforms of social media sites.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;Just this fall we started seeing the buzz of it with selfies,&#8221; Locke said. &#8220;We kind of decided we had to jump on it and that we were kind of dumb for not doing it beforehand.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The website selfiepolice.org with its tagline &#8220;You owe humanity a dollar,&#8221; launched on Jan. 7. Within the first day, the site received more than 1,000 hits, Barton said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;Launch day was pretty awesome,&#8221; Barton said. &#8220;We put it out there and just started trying to blow up all of our social media accounts.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">They primarily targeted audiences through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size:\n 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The influence was widespread.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;There was a lot of local activity in terms of Utah and surrounding areas,&#8221; Barton said. &#8220;But looking at Google analytics for the site, we reached all but three states.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">According to the site, the Selfie Police has raised $1,403 so far, equaling 1,403 selfies paid in full. Vittana recognized the efforts through a tweet about the Selfie Police on Jan. 8, calling it &#8220;brilliant.&#8221; Donations are made through a PayPal link on the site. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Kevin Meacham, USU\/SA service center vice president, jumped on the selfie train recently, though he said he was reluctant at first.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not a big fan of posting selfies,&#8221; Meacham said. &#8220;I think they&#8217;re really stupid and absurd.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Meacham, who shares a mutual friend with Locke, said the charitable spin of the Selfie Police changed his opinion. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;I think definitely it takes a positive spin on it, and if I can see it&#8217;s going toward a greater cause and it&#8217;s a bigger picture and it&#8217;s fun and games, then yeah, I mean, it changes my perspective of the whole idea of it,&#8221; Meacham said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He posted his selfie on his Twitter feed, he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;That will probably be the only selfie that I ever post,&#8221; Meacham said. &#8220;But if it&#8217;s going toward a good cause, then I&#8217;m all for it.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Locke said he isn&#8217;t much of a selfie guy either, but his co-founder has a different opinion of them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;We almost had to have an intervention with Chas last year,&#8221; Locke said. &#8220;He actually went back and paid for every one of his selfies.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Barton did not deny Locke&#8217;s claim. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;\">&#8220;I enjoy the occasional <\/span>selfie<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;\">,&#8221; Barton said. <\/span>&#8220;Selfies<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;\"> are wonderful. You just need to embrace them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Lauren McCabe, a sophomore in family consumer sciences education, called the idea innovative and clever.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;Selfies are kind of silly and I don&#8217;t take selfies a lot,&#8221; McCabe said. &#8220;But I might start taking a selfie just so I can Selfie Police myself so people will pay money to donate to this awesome charity. College is really important to me, and I&#8217;m passionate about helping others to have that opportunity also, and this is just a really simple way that a lot of people can donate.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backg\nround-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Locke said they&#8217;d like to raise at least $20,000 for Vittana.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;Our plan is when we have enough followers, when our army of Selfie Police is big enough &#8230; we&#8217;re going to turn and use that force to call out higher profile people, like celebrities,&#8221; Barton said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">There is a list of the Selfie Police most-wanted on selfiepolice.org, including selfie-prone stars such as Jimmy Fallon, Lebron James and Beyonce. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;Justin Bieber, in particular,&#8221; Barton said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to take him down, get him to join the cause, pay up for all of his selfies. He owes quite a bit of money.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Meacham said he believes celebrity involvement is the key to success for the Selfie Police. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8220;In my eyes, if they do that, then game over,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to take off.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Selfie Police has reached local and national attention through coverage by forums like KSL and The Huffington Post. 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