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Definition of Police blotter
1. Noun. The daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station.
Generic synonyms: Written Account, Written Record
Definition of Police blotter
1. Noun. (American English) A register, maintained by the desk sergeant, of people arrested or brought in for questioning to a police station. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Blotter
Literary usage of Police blotter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Police Administration: A Critical Study of Police Organisations in the by Leonhard Felix Fuld (1909)
"In addition to these administrative , entries the police blotter contains ...
in the police blotter be transferred to and classified in the central office. ..."
2. Cleveland Foundation Survey of Criminal Justice in Cleveland by Cleveland Foundation (1921)
"This is made upon the police blotter in the office of the clerk, a large book
about two and one-half feet square. Exhibit A illustrates the nature of this ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"On the other hand the sergeants take their turn at the desk in the station house
where the police "blotter" or record of arrests and other incidents of the ..."
4. Essentials in Journalism: A Manual in Newspaper Making for College Classes by Harry Franklin Harrington, Theodore Thomas Frankenberg (1912)
"Reports of such a nature, together with any complaints, are placed upon the
police "blotter," a large ruled book which gives a brief summary of any accident ..."
5. American Police Systems by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1920)
"As far as crime records are concerned, it is a safe generalization that every
scrap of information worthy of being recorded on a precinct police blotter is ..."
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