cron-scheduled Django task that imports a nightly data feed from a government database and loads it into my own backend

1) nightly_crime_load.py

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError

import neighborhoods.views
from neighborhoods.models import Crime
import urllib2, json

class Command(BaseCommand):
    args = 'No arguments yet'
    help = "Reads yesterday's MPD data into the database"

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        new_crimes = neighborhoods.views.get_crime_in_xml_for_day_offset(offset=2)
        crimes_list = neighborhoods.views.crime_list_from_xml(new_crimes)

        for crime in crimes_list:
            saved_crime = neighborhoods.views.save_mpd_crime_from_dict(crime)
            neighborhoods.views.add_zip_to_crime(saved_crime)
            self.stdout.write(str(saved_crime) + "\t ZIP: " + str(saved_crime.zip_code) + "\n")

        self.stdout.write(str(len(crimes_list)) + ' records processed.\n')

2) crontab

# m h  dom mon dow   command
@midnight cd /home/daniel/myapps/operation/opsafe && /home/daniel/myapps/operation/bin/python /home/daniel/myapps/operation/opsafe/manage.py nightly_crime_load > /tmp/cronlog.txt 2>&1