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Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said he will begin publicly posting daily recaps of overnight police calls on his blog Monday, as he tries to sound a broader community alarm on crime.

Koval said he has been writing recaps each morning for about three months and sending the reports to City Council members and Mayor Paul Soglin, but will begin posting them for the public Monday at noon.

The reports contain details of what Koval considers the most significant crimes each night between the hours of 5 p.m. and 5 a.m.

“I’ll use my blog as basically a daily, overnight log, to give my community a sense of what are the dynamics, what are the complexities, what are the labor-intensive kind of calls that our police department responds to every night,” Koval said.

Koval began writing the daily reports, what he calls “snapshots,” of overnight crime, after a press conference in April 28 where his response to a reporter’s question landed him in hot water with Mayor Paul Soglin.