VIDEO CAMERA LOCATION FEATURE NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH APD The Arcata Police Department is encouraging community members to utilize Citizen RIMS to assist investigators with locating video evidence that can potentially be used to solve crime. Citizen RIMS, or Records Information Management System, is an on-line information sharing tool that provides real time data on locations where crime…
Whither the wacky coplog? That’s your call
I knew this day would come, and here we are. My warm, wise, witty, WTF “Arcata Police Log” is now obsolete, maybe. You decide. My writing the coplog goes back to one week in 1993, when Union Editor Rosemary Edmiston, who usually wrote it up, was too busy and asked me to do the rewrite…
Arcata crime now online
Mad River Union ARCATA – Those wishing to keep close watch on Arcata crime can now do so in near-real time in the comfort of their web browser. With a $6,340 purchase of a module called Citizen RIMS, the Arcata Police Department has put its crimefighting activity online. The website, arcata.crimegraphics.com, includes a range of…