Editing Amherst, Massachusetts (section)

==Police report==
Since 1997, the local newspaper, the ''Amherst Bulletin'', has published a weekly log of phone calls received by the Amherst Police Department.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grabbe |first1=Nick |title=Only-in-Amherst stories as two newspapers merge, 1988-2003 |url=https://theamherstcurrent.org/2022/06/06/only-in-amherst-stories-as-two-newspapers-merge-1988-2003/ |access-date=2022-12-23 |work=The Amherst Current |date=June 6, 2022}}</ref> This police report, whose tone is deadpan and often unintentionally humorous, has been the subject of at least two books<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ericson |first1=Corwin |title=Checked Out OK |date=2013 |publisher=Factory Hollow Books |location=Amherst, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-9795905-6-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Schuman |first1=Aaron |title=Slant |date=2019 |publisher=Mack Books |location=London, United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-912339-38-9}}</ref> and a 2002 article in ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', "Gone When Police Got There".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ericson |first1=Corwin |title=Gone when police got there |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2002/02/gone-when-police-got-there/ |access-date=2022-12-23 |work=Harper's Magazine |date=February 2002}}</ref> For example, an entry from the March 27, 2015 police report reads: "2:48 a.m.—An Ann Whalen Apartments resident awoke to find someone on her balcony looking into her bedroom. The woman later told police she thinks she may have been dreaming prior to calling 911."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Merzbach |first1=Scott |title=Arrests & summons |url=https://www.amherstbulletin.com/Archives/2015/03/m27copper-hg-032715 |access-date=January 4, 2023 |work=Amherst Bulletin |date=March 27, 2015}}</ref>