City of Los Angeles Police Department - Blogging?

A recent story just popped up on BoingBoing this morning and caught my attention: It looks like the LAPD has started to blog and share their images with flickr. How cool is that? Now, I doubt that we’ll get sensitive information or anything like that, but I think that it will help go a long way to opening communication between the LAPD and, well, just about everyone else. From the Chief:

Our online journal is an interactive tool that we use to deliver real-time, unfiltered information. We invite you to take a look inside the Department to learn more about the men and women in blue who have sworn to protect and to serve you.
By using this Blog, the LAPD hopes to maintain an open dialogue with the communites we serve and those who have an interest in the men and women of this organization. We encourage you to express your opinions about current events through respectful and insightful discussion. We reserve the right to refuse to post those comments that contain inappropriate language and/or material. In the near future, we intend to expand our Blogging capabilities to all 19 Area Stations.

Now, I don’t need to point out that we are in the middle of Silicon Valley, isn’t it high-time that our local government get on with it and start using tools to help increase communication with the Citizens? RSS, Weblogs, Flickr, Tags, Buller, Buller?

LAPD BLog - (http://lapdblog.typepad.com/)

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