I'll take this along to police headquarters and have the police verify this information.
Thanks, Mr West. Mr. Moyer ----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony West To: [email protected] >> UnivCity listserv Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [UC] important crime report information, car jacking 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.4/936 - Release Date: 8/4/2007 2:42 PM
