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The city of Lafayette's police department (in the SF East Bay) accepts crime tip emails using a Gmail address (94549TIP@gmail.com). It's plastered on all their

The city of Lafayette's police department (in the SF East Bay) accepts crime tip emails using a Gmail address (94549TIP@gmail.com). It's plastered on all their police cars, even though the city and police department have an official domain. Though even that is a .org domain, lovelafayette.org.

mike_hock 7y ago
So an email address that looks like a fraud (or just random) and a domain name that looks like a porn site.
- Tempest1981 7y ago
  94549 is their city zip code. And a palindrome.
  - maxmalysh 7y ago
    > And a palindrome. spilled my coffee
  - Cerium 7y ago
    Yep, growing up in Lafayette the teachers always said, no reason not to remember, you only need to learn three digits.
paggle 7y ago
Well presumably one would not be feeling much “Love Lafayette” when reporting crimes.
- manderley 7y ago
  ... but they would want to get the government, the "gman" involved - so "gmail" fits perfectly!