Blotter-fresh: Crimes of the Month soaks up criminal activity

The “police blotter” is a term that goes back to at least 1887.
Much debate surrounds the origin of “police blotter,” some of which you can read at wordorigins.org if you can’t sleep at night.
Which brings us to Crimes of the Month, which is another kind of police blotter. It records arrests from day to day and is absorbent enough to soak up spilled coffee.
On the basis of those grounds, the large and well-paid staff of Crimes of the Month has been busy compiling Ma