The LAPD blog is getting a lot of mainstream press, from the LA Times to the London Times.

And according to the UK's Guardian, the LA police blog is the first of it's kind. Now, a police department in Mangalore India is claiming not only that was it the first to start a police department blog -- beggining in December 05 -- but that it was the inspiration for LA's blog.

Hold on now. Boston's BPDNews was first (Nov 05) and obviously the inspiration for the LAPD blog. Let's get that straight.

The LA papers covered the local police blog story. Even the Mangalore media covered its town's police blog. So why the silence from Boston media on the first police blog in the nation right in its own back yard? Seems strange, doesn't it?

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