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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| fled from ice | 4 | 1 | TN |
| icebreaker | 2 | 1 | KS |
| ice from truck damage vehicle | 1 | 1 | NJ |
| assist ice agents | 1 | 1 | TX |
| ice hold | 1 | 1 | TN |
| wanted by homeland ice | 1 | 1 | GA |
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.