The Ann Arbor Police Department will now allow people to file police reports for minor crimes on the Internet through the department’s website, officials announced Monday.
According to a statement released by the department, people now can make police reports for harassing phone calls, theft, vandalism, identity theft, lost or damaged property or private property crashes by visiting www.a2gov.org/police.
The statement said these crimes were chosen because “these reports typically do not require a police interview or follow up investigation but they are often needed for insurance claims or other matters.”
We have almost no doubt this is on the way. It would impact crime stats, too, if they make it just complicated enough to frustrate the computer illiterate (elderly, poor, minority, etc.) And if they combine this with a 9-1-1 revamp of calls that police will no longer respond to? You're looking at a double digit "drop" in crime percentages.