Data update: Palos Heights IL PD (June 2026)
2.6M network audit records from Palos Heights IL PD covering April–July 2025, with 3,064 agencies in the network.
Records from Palos Heights IL PD were added, covering April through July 2025. Palos Heights is a suburb of roughly 12,000 residents in Cook County, Illinois, about 20 miles southwest of Chicago.
#Organization audit
- Type: Organization audit (Palos Heights PD’s own searches)
- Timespan: Apr 2 – Jul 31, 2025 (~4 months)
- Records: 4,229
- Search types: search: 2,809 (66.4%), lookup: 648 (15.3%), search-Mobile: 413 (9.8%), lookup-Mobile: 359 (8.5%)
No blank reasons. Top entries are free-text investigation strings: Investigation/Inv/inv/investigation combined (~1,983), Narcotics/Narcotic Investigation (~318), Homicide (172), theft (172), Ci (160 — likely “criminal investigation”), hit and run (69). The homicide count is notable for a department of this size.
#Network audit
- Type: Network audit
- Timespan: Apr 1 – Jul 31, 2025 (~4 months)
- Records: 2,599,612
- Organizations: 3,064
#Search types
| Type | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| search | 1,265,757 | 48.7% |
| lookup | 862,350 | 33.2% |
| search - Mobile | 308,007 | 11.9% |
| lookup - Mobile | 158,106 | 6.1% |
| convoy | 5,263 | 0.20% |
| freeform | 96 | <0.01% |
| multiGeo | 33 | <0.01% |
Vehicle-description searches (48.7%) outpace automated lookups (33.2%), with mobile variants accounting for another 18% — an unusually high mobile proportion compared with many other Illinois agencies.
#Top searchers
| Organization | Searches |
|---|---|
| Houston TX PD | 126,962 |
| Atlanta GA PD | 47,513 |
| Michigan State Police | 39,318 |
| Cleveland OH Division of Police | 38,094 |
| Joliet IL PD | 28,867 |
| Milwaukee WI PD | 27,482 |
| Lexington KY PD | 24,482 |
| Lake County IN SO | 23,058 |
| Chicago IL PD | 22,862 |
| Illinois State Police | 20,934 |
Houston TX PD runs almost 5% of all searches through a suburban Cook County agency. Atlanta GA PD, roughly 700 miles away, is the second-highest external searcher. Chicago IL PD, Palos Heights’ closest large neighbor, ranks ninth.
#Monthly volume
| Month | Records |
|---|---|
| Apr 2025 | 710,591 |
| May 2025 | 781,734 |
| Jun 2025 | 566,904 |
| Jul 2025 | 540,383 |
#Reasons
Reason strings are free-text dominated. Top entries cluster around investigation (inv, Investigation, investigation, Inv, INV, INVESTIGATION, invest — totaling roughly 530,000 records across variants), stolen/Stolen/STOLEN (~131,000), theft (~38,000), warrant (~37,000), and wanted (~22,000). The reason string 99 appears ~19,910 times with no obvious interpretation.
Blank reasons are extremely low at 0.1% (2,612 records).