Observed arrival · 2026-08-26

Police Census, including the agencies that go quiet

policecensus.com Observed source

Editorial interest 88/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A public reference site indexing American law-enforcement agencies, their crime and workforce data, and their reporting gaps.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-26 issue.

Field notes

The homepage organizes the dataset by state and labels each jurisdiction with both its agency count and its number of silent agencies; Pennsylvania, for example, is listed with 1,439 agencies and 1,194 silent. The project says its figures come from named sources such as the FBI Crime Data Explorer and are reproduced as published, without estimating or adjusting missing values. Additional navigation points to records on deaths, military surplus, funding, oversight, and law.

Observed signals

Read the marks

Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.

○OpenPublic substance visible

✦PrettyNotable craft visible

●ProPolished or operationally mature

◎NicheUnusually specific use

◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade

ƒJavaScriptBrowser-side code central

One card from the complete issue

Eleven Views of a Dandelion

357,299 arrived 1,000 judged 1000 catalogued Enter the complete issue