police log

[mrboboto.livejournal.com]

Does anyone publish a police log for Somerville these days? WickedLocal used to do it, but that's been dead for a while now. I checked the PD's website but there's nothing there. The crime maps haven't even been updated since 2006.

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[jamesnorton.livejournal.com]

hi there - i dont think my newspaper publishes the arrest log online - but - it is in the print edition of the somerville news.

if you like, send me a private email at jamesnorton@yahoo.com and i will email you this week's arrest log

jamie norton
editor, the somerville news

[mrboboto.livejournal.com]

Aha! It's there under "Crime Pages". I was googling for "police log" but you call it the "arrest log" online, so that's why I couldn't find it.

Thanks for the help!

[jamesnorton.livejournal.com]

no problemo, mr boboto - always glad to help any way i can.

Hey James....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

I need a new iPod. Can you help? :)

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

The Somerville Journal and the Somerville News both do. The Somerville Journal also has a section of crime reports.. i.e. burglaries, assaults, etc. Both papers cover crime stories regularly as well.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Oh, and there's a Google Group that plots the break-ins on a map, that's updated every week:

http://groups.google.com/group/somerville-crime-watch

[rmd.livejournal.com]

eh? the rss feed i have from wickedlocal still works:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/police_and_fire/rss

[mrboboto.livejournal.com]

Weird- the page that comes up from Goggle just says "Police and Fire Log- DEAD"

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

They changed the name of the feature to "Somerville Crimes Reported" and "Somerville Arrests Reported" and forgot to put a forward in from the old "Police and Fire Log" page.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Police logs on Wickedlocal sites are all a little weird. Last time I tried, I couldn't go back in time to see the archives, but if you already know the URL of a months-ago log ( not easily guessable ), they're still online.

Only the links are hard to find ( and Google catches them sporadically ). RSS logs are a good thing.

I was just browsing the arrest list....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Consistent with stats but... There are all MEN!

Re: I was just browsing the arrest list....

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

If you mean this week, there's definitely women in there.

(Protip: you have to actually click on the link for the week to get the entire week's listings.)

Re: I was just browsing the arrest list....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Oh... Always weird to see how many people get in trouble EVERY WEEK in the same town where you live. I'm sheltered, no doubt...

Re: I was just browsing the arrest list....

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Considering how many people live here, that doesn't seem like a huge number to me. . .

Re: I was just browsing the arrest list....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

25/week.... It's over 1250/year... Take out the kids and the elderly... That's a big chunk of people...

Re: I was just browsing the arrest list....

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Meh, I'm pretty sure between the repeats and the folks who are later released for not having done anything wrong it's not as bad as you think. But if you want to run back to "small-town America" in fear of the big bad urban criminal men and women of Somerville, that's no skin off my nose.

Re: I was just browsing the arrest list....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Nah, I don't like small-town America... I'll just buy a couple of guns and stay here.

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

I don't think 1250/year is a large number at all, in a city with a population that hovers around 90,000 give or take. Also when you look at the arrest logs, many of those arrested don't live in Somerville at all.

Oh you...

[winterhill.livejournal.com]

... with your actual paying attention to the residences of those arrested. Your facts and figures. Sheesh.

I'm always fascinated to see exactly WHAT is going down at the La Quinta Inn on any given week, too.