Anyone here old enough to remember the Dr Hook song, The Cover of the Rolling Stone? Before the high-tech age, getting your picture on the cover made you a counter-culture hero. (Or hated villain.) Nowadays fame, or infamy, is everywhere. Just look what’s hanging out at the local newsstands! Probably not the magazine you’d want to send home to Ma, unless her last name is Barker.
I wrote a couple weeks back about the downtown crime sweeps. Police and merchants are working together to displace the crack-slanging crowd, and results are noticeable. While the shifty behavior continues, it’s toned way down and nowhere near as prevalent as in recent months. Want to see what some of your neighbors have been up to? Check out the new magazine, Busted!
Culled from the Multnomah County public information website, mugshots and names have been compiled and put into print form. The arrests are mainly for drug and prostitution, but other low to mid-level offenders are represented as well. Copies of the paper are available at Peterson’s for $1, and more info is available at their website.
Ma Barker would be so proud!
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I don’t think this “paper” is right, or just, or at all funny or cute. Remember that these people were arrested and NOT convicted. Also remember that a fair sized minority of people accused of a crime are in fact innocent. It happens. I was once myself arrested for a crime that I never committed (charges were dropped before trial) and it burns me to think that my mugshot would have been passed around for all to see and to mock before my innocence was proved beyond doubt. Lets grow up, shall we?
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