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[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/obrienvideo.jpg) The 2007 video of Mayor Larry O’Brien being interviewed by the OPP is now online. The judge in O’Brien’s trial gave the media access to the DVD of the interview, and today several media outlets published it online. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/Search-CrimeReports.com_1225238784281.png) The Ottawa Police have launched an crime mapping tool for Ottawa , built by combining police call data with Google Maps. From a police press release : A new Google-based crime mapping tool is being launched this evening on ottawapolice. ...

From Knitnut.net : ** ** So now that we’ve increased the police budget and hired more cops, what are we going to do with them? ... Well, how about that fiasco at Somerset and Bank? The intersection has been closed in four directions for four weeks, ever since the interior of the old Ritz Hotel caved in. ...

Alec Saunders has a good argument against security cameras in public spaces. Vernon White, Ottawa’s new police chief, wants to install cameras in the downtown core to help cut crime. Here’s a sampling of Alec’s post, titled Ottawa’s Panopticon : ...