Police are notorious for spelling errors, especially on street names. But now that city cops are increasingly going on-line with information, those errors are making their way into the public domain.

Monday night, Baltimore police twittered a shooting in the "500 block of N. Elwood Ave." Of course, there is no such address in the city (one extra 'l' would've given the posting accuracy), which my counterpart crime blogger didn't hesitate to point out:

Tweets our Facebook friend the BPD: "SHOOTING: Police investigating @ 500 block of N ELWOOD AVE." Google maps says there's no such street in the city, though there's an Elwood Ave in Easton, making us wonder if ...

there are still unexplored, primordial and unGooglized parts of the city

the BPD is trying to fake out sloppy reporters

the BPD is getting Easton radio transmissions

an officer said some other street with a Baltimore accent to a NY PR firm that's handling the BPD's "social networking services."

The shooting occurred in the 500 block of N. Ellwood Ave., in the city's Ellwood Park/Monument neighborhood. For more information, see today's story in The Sun.