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HUPD Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley maintains that rumors about the HUPD's blotter omissions being intentional attempts to hide public information are simply not true. Regardless of their cause, however, the effect of these blotter omissions was the same: a lack of information provided to the public on criminal incidents that have a direct impact on the way we see our community...
Report of alleged rape mysteriously omitted from police blotter. Who's being protected here anyway...
...rape and assault of another Harvard student. Elster, who pleaded not guilty, was arrested on Saturday, January 31 and was released on Tuesday on $10,000 cash bail. The Harvard University Police Department inadvertently broke Massachusetts state law by not recording Elster's arrest on its public blotter...
...report of the incident and Elster's arrest did not appear in the HUPD blotter and the relevant incident numbers were skipped. HUPD claims the reports were misrecorded in the blotter, a record that is public for the sake of student safety. For breaking the law--and its trust with the student body--the HUPD should be investigated by state authorities...
...lent nothing to the issue and served to further pinhole Elster into a largely villainous portrayal. If the editors had any intention of accurately and honestly informing the student body, they would never run a story like this until they had more information than two lines in a police blotter and a couple statements from random segments of the student body...