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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 police cars, even though the city and police department have an official domain. Though even that is a .org domain, lovelafayette.org.

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So an email address that looks like a fraud (or just random) and a domain name that looks like a porn site.

94549 is their city zip code. And a palindrome.

Yep, growing up in Lafayette the teachers always said, no reason not to remember, you only need to learn three digits.

> And a palindrome.

spilled my coffee

Well presumably one would not be feeling much “Love Lafayette” when reporting crimes.

... but they would want to get the government, the "gman" involved - so "gmail" fits perfectly!

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