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Cybercop: No Good Reason For Adults to Own Animal Crossing (Animal Crossing)

 
Gamepolitics: Law enforcement is an increasingly challenging job, so GP likes to see police officers well trained and well-informed. Moreover, with an uptick in the number of incidents in which alleged pedophiles have made contact with their victims through online games, this is clearly a venue that the police need to be able to understand and deal with effectively when the need arises. That being said, we hope these comments by an investigator with the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force were somehow misquoted or taken out of context: "There is no reason an adult should have [Animal Crossing: City Folk]," says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force. (link)

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