Local Mug Shots (MugShots.com) was featured on CNN today. Local Mug Shots MugShots.com carries mugs of people in your community recently arrested.

On Local Mug, you don’t have to be Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan to grace their pages; you don’t even have to be a celebrity, or even convicted - you just have to have a mug shot!

CNN covered America’s fascination with other’s “peril” citing John Watson, associate professor of journalism at American University in Washington. He said , “We like being frightened without being in actual peril.”

Some papers also run entire sections just on mug shots and call them one of the most popular section of their paper on readership.

Max Cannon is the publisher of Local MugSHOTS.

On the web: mugshots.com