Barb (left) and Steph (right) outside the Police Administration
Building a.k.a. "The Round House." Notice the cool statue in
the background. Photo by Clem Murray / Inquirer.
My colleague Barb and I have started a blog called “Rap Sheet” and we’re pretty excited about it. In law enforcement, the term “rap sheet” is slang for a police arrest record. The term "rap” is also a colloquialism for conversation, and that's exactly what we want to do here. The web serves as our “sheet”.
Barb and I, who comprise the first all-female police reporting duo for the Inquirer, have been covering crime for years and we both thought it’d be interesting to give our readers a glimpse of our day to day gig covering crime news mixed with anecdotes from the interesting culture of Philly’s Finest.
So, on behalf of the Round House bureau, Welcome to Rap Sheet!
...And stay outta trouble...