The Farmington Police Department press arrest log for the twenty-four hours beginning 7 a.m. Monday, March 30, through 7 a.m. Tuesday, March 31, contains zero arrests.
No warrants served. No bonds posted. No charges filed. No one was caught shoplifting at 500 South Road. No one was pulled over on Birch Street. No one blew over the legal limit at an undisclosed intersection. Officer Roque, for one full shift cycle, did not arrest anyone. Neither did Officer Aparo. Neither did anyone else.
The Farmington Mercury has published eight consecutive police logs since March 18. Every single one had arrests. Some had as many as six. There were DUIs in three straight logs. There were four shoplifting incidents at the same address in eight days. There was a woman arrested who was already in prison.
Monday's log has none of that. One page. No entries. A header, a dotted line, and the rest of the page left blank. The quietest twenty-four hours Farmington has produced since this series began.
When there are six arrests, you get six arrests. When there are zero, you get zero. Farmington slept well. Or at least it didn't get caught.
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— Jack Beckett has now read nine consecutive Farmington police logs. This is the first one that didn't require him to look up a Connecticut statute. He's not sure how to feel about it. The coffee is still black. ☕
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