That's for sure. A dozen different things can happen to a crime report.
Anybody who thinks every police activity is instantaneously translated
into some Great Archive in the Sky has spent too much time on the
internet and too little time doing police work.
The chief reason some individuals are paid to be police reporters is
because it often takes days or weeks to track down the governmental
outcome on any one simple report. You actually have to talk to many
individuals in question, learn their names and phone numbers, and follow
up patiently ... and neutrally! Google won't help you much here.
Except in sleepy jurisdictions, you'll never read official "public
reports" on most police activity. It's too much trouble to track down
every piece of the average crime report to be worth the bother in any
medium.
That's where neighborhood reports in venues like UCNeighbors and UC-list
can come in handy. They shouldn't be treated as anything more than what
they are. They cannot be outcome reports for true police work, which
typically takes weeks or months to process.
-- Tony West
Nothing shows up for 10 PM 8/1/07 through 2 AM 8/2/07 for the 18th
District under any of the four categories except Accident (one entry,
54th and Walnut). I'd give it a couple of days, it's possible not
everything's been added yet (how likely is it that the only thing that
required a written report in the entire 18th District for four hours
was one car accident?). Word of caution: in any event, this is
negative info - it says what's not there, not what is: that there was
no report, not that there was no incident (if you catch my double
negatives).
Al Airone
