Armed with a police scanner and a whole lotta energy, Alex Thompson tracks grime and crime in Venice, the land where hippies stab each other and the rich pass out on the beach. Some of Thompson’s recent posts allude to strife within the Venice crime-fighting community, but we’ll keep checking her site so long as she keeps feeding us videos of drunks doing wrong.

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