66,007 distinct reasons · 646,038 searches
Most Flock portals that publish a search audit include the reason an officer entered before running a plate. Every one of those strings from every published audit in the country is searchable here: 646,038 searches, 66,007 distinct reasons, from 504 agencies in 43 states. New Mexico is not among them: no agency there publishes an audit at all.
This searches the vocabulary, not the individual searches - a reason, how many searches used it, how many agencies, and which states. Reasons are lowercased so “INV” and “inv” count once. A single word matches the start of a word, so “deport” finds “deportation” but “ice” does not find “police” - a mistake this project made once while checking its own filter. Put a space in the query and it matches that phrase anywhere.
Sorted by how many searches used the reason. A reason used once, by one agency, is kept - the single strange entry is the point of a search box.
| Reason, as typed | Searches | Agencies | States |
|---|---|---|---|
| amber alert | 76 | 39 | AR CA IA IL IN KS MN MO NV OH OR TN WA |
| missing person / amber | 25 | 1 | CA |
| kops alert / kidnapping / amber alert | 20 | 1 | MN |
| amber | 11 | 6 | CA MO OH TN |
| missing person, amber alert, silver alert, etc. | 8 | 1 | NY |
| areack/amber alert | 3 | 1 | CA |
| amber alert suspect | 2 | 2 | CA MO |
| amber alert little rock pd | 2 | 1 | AR |
| amber alert-burien | 2 | 1 | WA |
| homicide and amber alert | 1 | 1 | MO |
| amber alert search | 1 | 1 | IA |
| amber rees | 1 | 1 | NE |
| amber alrty | 1 | 1 | CA |
| amber alert from waterloo | 1 | 1 | IA |
| independence amber alert | 1 | 1 | MO |
| amber alert vehicle | 1 | 1 | WA |
| amber alert spd | 1 | 1 | WA |
| amber alert/suspect vehicle | 1 | 1 | IA |
Reasons come from each agency’s own published search audit, obtained through EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0) - a secondary reading of pages the agencies publish themselves. What a reason string cannot tell you is what the search was really for: a search run for one purpose with “investigation” typed in the box looks like every other investigation here. What the whole corpus shows.