2008年一個在哈佛燕京圖書館偷報紙的指控鬧上了台灣新聞(Google用關鍵字查可以找到)。那時一個新聞報導說到哈佛校方警局看紀錄是不可能的。
我的是經驗是我一次車禍後老美朋友帶我到警局翻 police log,所以我知道有這麼一回事。這其實也沒什麼,police log 就擺在警局入口的桌上,也沒人管,走過去直接翻來看,然後翻到我的名字和車禍紀錄。
是不是美國每個州的市鎮警局都有提供這服務我就不清楚了,也許這就是報導那人如此的強調不可能,說不定哈佛校方警局真的沒有開放他們的 police log。不過更有可能的是翻譯失誤,台灣方面翻成 police record,然後美國這邊的人當然說 police record 不可能任意讓人翻閱,因為兩者是不一樣的。
那時讀到相關報導時,我想我所在市鎮的警局有線上 police log,那麼 Cambridge / Harvard University 警局也應該有線上的 police log(我懶得直接跑去 Cambridge 去翻紙本的),但是網路上沒找到。
這麼多年後,剛剛不知道為什麼突然想起這個 police log 的事,查了一下,找到了:
www.hupd.harvard.edu/public-police-log
Harvard University Police Department
Public Police Log
“Information from the HUPD log can be found in three locations. There
are two official logs, which contain sixty days of incidents reported to
the HUPD. The first is kept at HUPD headquarters, 1033 Massachusetts
Avenue, 6th floor and the second is kept at the HUPD Longwood office
space at 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday
through Friday, excluding holidays. The official logs are updated as new
information becomes available. In addition, the HUPD also posts an
electronic version of the log at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/public-police-log.
Although the HUPD attempts to make the electronic version of the log as
accurate as possible at the time of posting, it is not the official
police log. Logs of crimes older than 60 days can be available with two
days notice to the HUPD.”
哈佛校方警局在兩個地方有放紙本的 logs。線上版的在這網頁下方(PDF格式),沒有紙本的完整就是。總之沒道理現在有,幾十年前卻是沒有。























