Police Reports.    We are pleased to post a link to a new website.  It is a private effort to allow us citizens to easily look up Bellingham police reports.  It takes information from police reports on the city's website and presents it in a useable manner. 

You can choose a type of arrest, dates, or see a plot on a map of Bellingham.  You can check for types of crime in your neighborhood.  You can see "Vehicle Prowl" for the month of February and see which parts of Bellingham have them and which do not. 

The site also creates graphs to order with different dates and criteria, and even shows some very interesting pie charts of which days of the week are best and worst for different types of crime.  You can almost guess at some. 

Created by John Meloy, a local computer programer, he has said that it will be enhanced further if people find it useful.  Right now, it requires a manual download of reports each week.  Soon, it will automatically download the reports each day. 

The link is at www.dangerserver.com and a permanent link is set in the right column for future use. 

We simply believe citizens should have access to information on our community.  And it should be made easy for them to get.  This is a tool for looking at what concerns you may have in your neighborhood.  We need information before we can act to address concerns.