“If there are drug problems in my country; if there are murderers killing people in my city; if people are breaking into houses in my neighborhood; I want to know about it. I need to know about it.... That’s why the newspaper reports these things.”

That was from a piece I wrote for the Reflector back in October of 1992. While much has changed in community journalism over these years, this has not.

I recalled it after conversations I had with readers this past week about an item in our daily list of police reports about a theft at a local church. Here is what we published last Tuesday:

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