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66,007 distinct reasons · 646,038 searches

What officers typed in the box

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.

75 distinct reasons contain “training”, used in 663 searches

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 typedSearchesAgenciesStates
training488121AR CA CO CT FL GA IA ID IL IN KS KY MA MD MI MN MO NC NJ NY OH OK OR SC TN TX WA WI
flock training274CA IA WI
training; exempt plate201WA
test/training137GA ID IN NC NY WI
cso training111CA
admin / training71TX
training demonstration52CA TX
training and demonstration41AR
training & evaluation31NY
flock academy training31WI
training ovesny21CT
training 08282026 - reed21CA
23103 training21CA
training/new cams21NJ
training - it related21WI
training purposes22CA
flock training search21TX
training/invest21MA
test for training22FL WI
training test21ID
3653 training/council demonstration21WA
training surveillance class 8/2621FL
stolen car, training21OH
training / testing21WA
training ordered21MI
admin use (training, audit, demo)21CO
training @ chp21CA
trainingr11CA
training intern11CA
other image search from alerts page associated with alert: 220.03 (cocaine), tony krampen 11.8.90 "observed a baggie sitting in the center console inside the cup holder with white powder inside of it which through the r/os training and knowledge was consistent with cocaine." lwk1801 - 2025-09-03t01:23:55.810z11NY
other image search from alerts page associated with alert: 220.03 (cocaine), tony krampen 11.8.90 "observed a baggie sitting in the center console inside the cup holder with white powder inside of it which through the r/os training and knowledge was consistent with cocaine." lwk1801 - 2025-09-02t05:09:09.392z11NY
other image search from alerts page associated with alert: 220.03 (cocaine), tony krampen 11.8.90 "observed a baggie sitting in the center console inside the cup holder with white powder inside of it which through the r/os training and knowledge was consistent with cocaine." lwk1801 - 2025-09-01t03:21:07.563z11NY
other image search from alerts page associated with alert: 220.03 (cocaine), tony krampen 11.8.90 "observed a baggie sitting in the center console inside the cup holder with white powder inside of it which through the r/os training and knowledge was consistent with cocaine." lwk1801 - 2025-08-26t02:44:41.541z11NY
other image search from alerts page associated with alert: 220.03 (cocaine), tony krampen 11.8.90 "observed a baggie sitting in the center console inside the cup holder with white powder inside of it which through the r/os training and knowledge was consistent with cocaine." lwk1801 - 2025-08-19t09:52:55.682z11NY
other image search from alerts page associated with alert: 220.03 (cocaine), tony krampen 11.8.90 "observed a baggie sitting in the center console inside the cup holder with white powder inside of it which through the r/os training and knowledge was consistent with cocaine." lwk1801 - 2025-08-18t05:18:15.766z11NY
other image search from alerts page associated with alert: 220.03 (cocaine), tony krampen 11.8.90 "observed a baggie sitting in the center console inside the cup holder with white powder inside of it which through the r/os training and knowledge was consistent with cocaine." lwk1801 - 2025-08-10t00:42:41.820z11NY
other image search from alerts page associated with alert: 220.03 (cocaine), tony krampen 11.8.90 "observed a baggie sitting in the center console inside the cup holder with white powder inside of it which through the r/os training and knowledge was consistent with cocaine." lwk1801 - 2025-08-07t01:38:40.375z11NY
10851 , training11CA
19851 , training11CA
23153 training11CA
training flock11MO
test search for fto training11MO
26-tbd alpr training11CA
atl for training11IA
flock training tompkins emo11NY
flock demo training11CA
test / training11KY
training on flock11MA
invest training11MA
test (training)11IL
training testing11ID
test training11ID
training presentation11WA
training photo for presentation11AZ
training for new search ux11CA
training purpose11CA
training (admin)11IA
training on adding evidence11TX
training / demo11OH
4427 / test/ training11WA
admin training11FL
susp car report/training11OH
training event11CA
a1/a3/b1 flock training11CA
testing / training11WA
test and training11MI
in person training11MO
training/testing only11IA
training carlton11CA
training - royal11CA
training-royal11CA
test _training11CA
_training11CA
cso _training11CA
self training11MA

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.