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Data update: Villa Park IL PD (June 2026)

15.5M network audit records from Villa Park IL PD covering January 2025 through April 2026, with 5,045 agencies in the network.

by HaveIBeenFlocked Team
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Records from Villa Park IL PD were added, covering January 2025 through April 2026. Villa Park is a village of roughly 22,000 residents in DuPage County, Illinois, about 22 miles west of Chicago.

#Network audit

  • Type: Network audit
  • Timespan: Jan 1, 2025 – Apr 22, 2026 (~16 months)
  • Records: 15,460,753
  • Organizations: 5,045

At 15.5M records and 5,045 agencies, Villa Park’s network audit is among the largest single-agency datasets in this collection. The data covers network-wide activity through Villa Park’s cameras, not Villa Park PD’s own outbound searches.

#Search types

TypeCount%
lookup10,561,29568.3%
search4,871,68431.5%
convoy23,6790.15%
apiV12,8180.02%
searchSummary454<0.01%
freeform377<0.01%
multiGeo304<0.01%
visual142<0.01%

#Top searchers

OrganizationSearches
Gwinnett County GA PD344,763
Houston TX PD324,851
Columbus OH PD235,999
Indianapolis Metro PD IN174,194
Hillsborough County FL SO164,154
Louisville Metro KY PD157,632
Michigan State Police152,303
Atlanta GA PD149,012
Memphis TN PD141,707
Cleveland OH Division of Police124,411

Gwinnett County GA PD — a large Atlanta-area agency roughly 700 miles away — edges out Houston TX PD for the top spot. No Illinois agency appears in the top ten.

#Monthly volume

MonthRecords
Jan 2025865,322
Feb 2025830,016
Mar 2025875,783
Apr 2025940,851
May 20251,050,471
Jun 2025925,065
Jul 2025983,295
Aug 20251,019,612
Sep 2025977,590
Oct 20251,050,596
Nov 20251,010,591
Dec 2025915,783
Jan 2026936,393
Feb 2026975,724
Mar 20261,373,584
Apr 2026730,077

Monthly volume is consistently high throughout, generally in the 870K–1.05M range. March 2026 is a significant outlier at 1.37M — about 30% above the surrounding months, without an obvious external explanation in the data. April 2026 is a partial month.

#Reasons

Free-text reason strings are heavily fragmented by capitalization variants. The investigation cluster (inv, Investigation, investigation, invest, Inv, INV, INVESTIGATION) totals roughly 1.49M records. stolen/Stolen/STOLEN together account for ~570,000. Drugs/Narcotics - (203,268), Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive) - (191,281), Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen - (179,692), warrant (166,372), Traffic Infraction - (157,367), and Larceny/Theft Offenses - (114,617) round out the top entries.

Blank reasons are low at 0.2% (26,888 records).