Three cheers for transparency, huh?

This makes zero sense from any kind of rational IT perspective. What Mickey Mouse developer sold them a hobbled system?

Back in the day each precinct photocopied all the reports same day and put them in a notebook for reporters. There was an element of trust involved. (imagine!) Eventually they started redacting information (with a black marker), but apparently every report was still there. Now...

I don't get it. Why can't everything be posted online? Online storage is cheap, and if the reports could be put on a CD, they can just as easily be posted to a web site. Since it's not a technical issue or a cost issue, I'm going to assume that the "more convenient and easier for the public" line is BS and that it's actually an access issue. Hey, SPD! Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining!

Ugh, that interface needs to be improved.

As far as I can tell you can't look at a list of all the individual incidents for that day. You have to expand each specific category. Why can't I just Expand All?

Why can't they provide a map showing the general location of the incident so that I can browse incidents that way?

Well, there's an issue that all the current candidates for police chief should address in public.

Is this being done now so the next chief, whoever he is, doesn't catch the blame for implementing it?

It's all because some overly wacko parents are creating websites that show 'molesters' (and include every teen boy who slept with his girlfriend and got caught).

Planned obfuscation--- it's the new black.

So Police Beat just got a lot more expensive, hunh?

correct, NaFun. Makes you wonder about the newsfeeds in the UW Daily and the neighborhood weeklies as well ...

No, no really! The internet is almost full and the storage of records of the rampant crime in Seattle would mean less room for porn. We're doing YOU a favor!