Crime and Puzzlement

Hello, my name is Ben Brown, I work for The Journal.

If you’ve met me professionally, that’s probably how I introduced myself. If you met me under other circumstances you may have noticed me struggling not to say that last part, such is the nature of my job, I never really feel like I'm off the clock.

After years of resisting the inevitable nature of my business, I have been drawn, kicking and screaming in my digital shackles, into the full light of the 21st century. Now that I’m here I’ll try to behave decently and not make a mess on the carpet while I take a swing at this blog business.

There wont likely be a lot of high minded writing or criticism here, for that you need to go next door to House of Burgess . Mostly this will serve as a place for me to publish all those bizarre things that go on in my world, precariously balanced here on the edge of those spaces in society occupied by cops, firefighters, first responders, criminals and attorneys.

This will likely be an irregularly updating feature. Such is the way with surreal occurrences, they often balk at attempts to schedule them.

Mostly I’ll treat readers to what I call “the best of the blotter.” Part of my job is to read the records of law enforcement activity every day to record the more interesting arrests. Often there are incidents that appear in those logs that do not meet our rigorous standards for publication, but they will find their place here.

So check in from time to time, and see how weird the place you live in actually is.

comments? questions? concerns? udjbb@pacific.net