Data update: Beecher IL PD (Apr 2026)

Records from the Beecher IL PD were added, covering October 2025 through mid-April 2026. Beecher is a village of roughly 4,400 residents in Will County, Illinois, about 40 miles south of Chicago.

#Network audit

• Type: Network audit
• Timespan: Oct 1, 2025 – Apr 16, 2026 (~6.5 months)
• Earliest record: Oct 1, 2025, 5:00 AM UTC
• Latest record: Apr 16, 2026, 2:06 PM UTC
• Records: 3,183,644
• Organizations: 4,288

Weekly volume is remarkably stable, averaging roughly 110K–130K searches per week across the full period. The holiday dip during the week of Dec 22 (70K) is the only notable deviation. Unlike some other Illinois agencies, Beecher’s network did not experience a volume collapse in late 2025.

#Search types

The overwhelming majority of searches are automated plate lookups, with only 4.4% being manual vehicle-description searches.

#Top searchers

Houston TX PD alone accounts for 2.1% of all searches run through Beecher’s cameras — from roughly 800 miles away. Texas agencies (Houston, DPS, Dallas, Fort Worth) collectively account for over 5% of all network searches. Kansas Highway Patrol and Akron OH PD both appear in the top ten, showing Beecher’s cameras feed a truly national surveillance network.

#Illinois agencies

Illinois agencies make up a significant share of searches, led by Chicago PD. Joliet and Will County SO — Beecher’s closest large neighbors in Will County — rank second and fourth. Oak Brook IL PD, a DuPage County agency roughly 50 miles north, runs nearly as many searches as Beecher’s own county sheriff.

#Immigration enforcement

747 network audit searches reference immigration or HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) in their reason field. See the immigration report for details.

Top agencies running immigration-related searches through Beecher’s cameras:

The most common reason strings are “HSI” (238), “Hsi car” (115), “hsi car - fraud” (30), and “hsi” (27). Darien IL PD — a DuPage County agency — accounts for the most immigration-flagged searches, followed by Banks County GA SO, a rural Georgia agency that appears in immigration searches across many Illinois departments.