What a month of Mendocino County Sheriff’s calls look like

MENDOCINO CO., 7/13/26 — The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office publishes a log of every call it answers. It goes up as a PDF each morning, one line per call, and almost nobody reads it. I read a month of it — June 12 through July 12, 1,061 calls. It isn’t a crime wave.

Start with what a call actually looks like. Here’s a complete entry, exactly as the county publishes it: