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New look, focus for BPDNews.com

Boston Police went live today with a full service BPDNews.com, changing it from just a blog of the latest crime news to a Web site for the entire department - where you can now find everything from information about specific districts to police-related forms and applications. The blog is now here.

One interesting thing they're doing is tagging everything by district, so you'll be able to track reports that are closest to home for you. Next cool step would be to better integrate the crime mapping onto the district pages.

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I feel like this is going to ruin the bpdnews page. I love the simplicity of it's most recent design as well as it's informal "he said she said" type language. I say, the bloggier the better!

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The Boston Police have at least 6 URLs, not counting social networking sites:

http://www.cityofboston.gov/police/
http://www.ci.boston.ma.us/police/ (redirects to above site)

http://www.bpdnews.com (duplicates much of the content from the above site)
http://www.bpddistricts.com (alias to bpdnews.com)

http://www.eastbostonpolice.com/
http://www.bostoncrimewatch.com/

Any more that I missed?

Apparently this is what happens when IT policy fails... you couldn't ask for a better example of IT balkanization. I wonder why they didn't just go obtain a sensible domain like bostonpolice.gov or bostonpolice.com.

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