Wayback Machine: Cranford Police Ledgers

CRANFORD, NJ - The Cranford Police Department has fired up the wayback machine and shared a page of police reports from 1923, a time before Computer Aided Dispatch and Records Management Systems.

Before the modern age, all police activities in ledger books with hand written entries. Many of the books are still in the Cranford Police archives.

Highlights from February 23, 1923 include:

• canvassers on Holly Street that a caller felt were "fresh"
• a dog license inquiry for a dog running at large at Grant School
• a broken water pipe in a home at Cherry Street and Union Avenue South
• a lost pocketbook near Shapiro's store

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