Since we launched BPDNews.com last November, we’ve heard from many other police departments who\’ve asked us how they can start their own blog. One of those agencies was the Los Angeles Police Department. After some conversations with the people at BPDNews.com, the LAPD launched their own Blog a few weeks ago. Check it out. We think it’s very well done, and so do a lot of folks in the media, from the LA Times to the London Times.Some of our readers have since informed us that various media outlets have been quick to anoint the LAPD blog as “the first to emanate from the police force of a major US city.\” To our amusement, this included one of our own local newspapers, who covered the LAPD launch and listed “Police from Karnataka, India, to Eden Prairie, Minn, (who) have started blogs and say they are happy with the results,” neglecting to mention the Boston blog in their very own backyard.
Which led to the question – who really was the first? For those of you keeping score, BPDNews was launched in November of 05. So far as we can tell, this makes us the first law enforcement blog anywhere (we apparently beat Mangalore, India, by a few weeks.) If you know of an official police blog that was launched sooner, please let us know. Till then, we’re happy to be known as the First in the Nation.
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Still First in the Nation
Since we launched BPDNews.com last November, we’ve heard from many other police departments who\’ve asked us how they can start their own blog. One of those agencies was the Los Angeles Police Department. After some conversations with the people at BPDNews.com, the LAPD launched their own Blog a few weeks ago. Check it out. We think it’s very well done, and so do a lot of folks in the media, from the LA Times to the London Times.Some of our readers have since informed us that various media outlets have been quick to anoint the LAPD blog as “the first to emanate from the police force of a major US city.\” To our amusement, this included one of our own local newspapers, who covered the LAPD launch and listed “Police from Karnataka, India, to Eden Prairie, Minn, (who) have started blogs and say they are happy with the results,” neglecting to mention the Boston blog in their very own backyard.
Which led to the question – who really was the first? For those of you keeping score, BPDNews was launched in November of 05. So far as we can tell, this makes us the first law enforcement blog anywhere (we apparently beat Mangalore, India, by a few weeks.) If you know of an official police blog that was launched sooner, please let us know. Till then, we’re happy to be known as the First in the Nation.
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No offense. But the story doesn’t say LAPD is the first. Just the biggest PD and ONE of the first to have a Blog. While reported in the Herald, the story is an AP story, not technically a Herald story.”Just a week old, the site makes the Los Angeles department the biggest police force in the United States – and one of the first worldwide – to blog.”
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Ouch! The article in question that fails to mention your excellent blog was written by the Associated Press. I read your excellent blog every day and have linked to it out of my blog.
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I found you sometime in November and used to use your info when I worked for a local TV news station. People kept asking me where I was getting info quicker than their typical sources and I said “the BPD has a blog that’s pretty accurate and up-to-date”
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Arcata, CA, has had one for a few years.
No offense. But the story doesn’t say LAPD is the first. Just the biggest PD and ONE of the first to have a Blog. While reported in the Herald, the story is an AP story, not technically a Herald story.”Just a week old, the site makes the Los Angeles department the biggest police force in the United States – and one of the first worldwide – to blog.”
No offense. But the story doesn’t say LAPD is the first. Just the biggest PD and ONE of the first to have a Blog. While reported in the Herald, the story is an AP story, not technically a Herald story.”Just a week old, the site makes the Los Angeles department the biggest police force in the United States – and one of the first worldwide – to blog.”
No offense. But the story doesn’t say LAPD is the first. Just the biggest PD and ONE of the first to have a Blog. While reported in the Herald, the story is an AP story, not technically a Herald story.”Just a week old, the site makes the Los Angeles department the biggest police force in the United States – and one of the first worldwide – to blog.”
Ouch! The article in question that fails to mention your excellent blog was written by the Associated Press. I read your excellent blog every day and have linked to it out of my blog.
Ouch! The article in question that fails to mention your excellent blog was written by the Associated Press. I read your excellent blog every day and have linked to it out of my blog.
Ouch! The article in question that fails to mention your excellent blog was written by the Associated Press. I read your excellent blog every day and have linked to it out of my blog.
I found you sometime in November and used to use your info when I worked for a local TV news station. People kept asking me where I was getting info quicker than their typical sources and I said “the BPD has a blog that’s pretty accurate and up-to-date”
I found you sometime in November and used to use your info when I worked for a local TV news station. People kept asking me where I was getting info quicker than their typical sources and I said “the BPD has a blog that’s pretty accurate and up-to-date”
I found you sometime in November and used to use your info when I worked for a local TV news station. People kept asking me where I was getting info quicker than their typical sources and I said “the BPD has a blog that’s pretty accurate and up-to-date”
Arcata, CA, has had one for a few years.
Arcata, CA, has had one for a few years.
Arcata, CA, has had one for a few years.