In today’s Dallas Morning News, there’s a story that says dallaspolice.net is still offline after being attacked by hackers. And this morning, police beat writer Scott Goldstein tweeted “Still no @DallasPD website this morning after weekend hacker attack that police won’t call a hacker attack.”
Yet this week’s editions of Park Cities People, Preston Hollow People, and Oak Cliff People — which went to press last night and will be delivered this afternoon — are chock full of crime news. How did this happen?
Well, ever-resourceful reporter Bradford Pearson figured out that the incident reports can be accessed if you bypass the home page and type in a slightly different URL: policereports.dallaspolice.net.
You’re welcome, Scott.
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The Park Cities People has nothing to do with a DPD crime website as they are patrolled by HPPD and UPPD. The whole Park Cities area is a big gray-ed block on the DPD website.
DGirl- We actually cover the surrounding areas of Dallas (Knox Street, Oak Lawn, etc.) as well. We publish the police reports from those areas weekly. Thanks for reading.