The nation's first big-city police blog
By adamg - 5/31/06 - 6:55 am
The Guardian, a British newspaper, claims that the Los Angeles police department's new LAPD Blog is
[T]he first to emanate from the police force of a major US city, [and] was launched two weeks ago with a rousing posting from the department's chief, William Bratton, the man who tamed the streets of New York City, and has promised to repeat the trick in Los Angeles.
Er, guys? As John Daley notes, Boston's very own BPDNews.com started up last November. And, sorry, Mangalore, India, you weren't first with a police blog, either, and Los Angeles did not take its inspiration from you. More likely, Bratton got the idea from his son David, a public-afffairs specialist at the Boston Police who worked with Daley to set up BPDNews.
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Unsolved Crimes
The Guardian is an English paper, so they may still be angry about the following police log report from Boston in 1773:
Tea Dumped in Harbor
On the evening of December 16th 1773 English colonial authorities arrived at Griffin's Wharf on Boston Harbor at around 10 P.M. in response to a call about tea being dumped into the harbor. Upon arriving, authorities saw hundreds of broken crates of tea floating in the harbor. The crews of the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor claimed a party of marauding Mohawk indians had boarded their ships and removed the tea.
Despite the presence of hundreds of witnesses who had met earlier that evening at Old South Church to plan the raid, the investigation has been hampered by a lack of cooperation. According to one person suspected to have been on the scene, "No one saw nothin'." Investigators were immediately sent to Charlestown.
Colonial authorities are currently investigating this property crime. They urge anyone with information about this incident to contact Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson.
Little Known Fact
Samuel Adams was the first Bostonian to sell "Stop Snitchin'" T-Shirts.