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The police are still better suited (if you'll excuse the pun) for such an investigation than random people on the internet. The motivation for people to search is good but I don't believe they will show restraint, partly because we've seen this happen before, my specific example being the Boston Marathon Bombing. These describe multiple people who were incorrectly identified as suspects, not by the police but by people just trying to help.
http://theweek.com/article/index/243028/4-innocent-people-wrongly-accused-of-bei...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/falsely-accused-in-boston-3-...

With serious crimes like this it's not just a bit of internet drama, it translates into real life. The Facebook page for a missing person had to be taken down due to abusive and hateful comments. An innocent person. Another, also innocent, person was afraid to leave his home for fear of abuse. That should not be happening and it is due to irresponsible people with good intentions suggesting who is responsible for attacks.

I'm not saying videos should be taken down because they might create false leads, I'm saying it's irresponsible to post videos publicly for the purpose of identifying a suspect and encouraging the general public to do so. One article on the Boston bombing, not linked, mentioned how police watched a few seconds or minutes of one video 400 times so they could track the movement of every single person in the clip. We're not more efficient at recognising fursuits, fursuits are distinctive. It's easier to recognise a suit than a person.

In response to your other comment, that's even worse advice as it puts people's safety in danger. An evacuation is the best course of action. You should not be telling people to just wait on a balcony. People are not, and never will be, trained to identify chemicals by smell. What they should do is get a safe place when there is danger. A balcony may end up being safe in some situations but if someone releases gas, people don't evacuate when they have the chance and then there is a fire, they are in an even worse situation. The advice you are giving in these posts is misguided and dangerous.

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~

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