“Petite piles of poo prompted protests to police.”
Item in the Dutch Harbor Telegraph Police Blotter
In the unlikely town of Unalaska, Alaska (population 3,580), there lives an unassuming police officer who has the unenviable task of writing typically uninteresting police reports for the town newspaper. But this officer has an unusual way with words, and the uncommon stories she tells have become an unrivaled favorite feature in the paper each week.
Police Sergeant Jennifer Shockley has been writing the police blotter for the Dutch Harbor Telegraph for six years. When she patrols the town, also known as Dutch Harbor (of Deadliest Catch fame), she’s not only thinking law and order. She’s thinking laughs and disorder.
In Ms. Shockley’s blotter, public intoxication suspects become “extremely intoxicated and giggling louts” and a routine animal complaint turns into a protest about “petite piles of poo.”
Readers like it. On the days the blotter’s published, the newspaper’s website enjoys a huge spike in visitors. All looking for the unbeatable blotter from Unalaska, Alaska.
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