About suspects.app

suspects.app is a public-records aggregator. It indexes news coverage of wanted or at-large suspects — links to articles, posts, and video, tagged by US location. We collect what's already in the public record; we don't add to it.

This is not a court, a police database, or an adjudication of guilt. Everyone named in a linked story is presumed innocent until convicted. We are a search-and-index layer on top of news already published elsewhere.

What "verified" and "unverified" mean here

The stamp on each report describes the source, not the underlying facts:

• Verified — the source is a recognized news outlet (wire services, established press, local TV/radio affiliates, .gov releases). The story exists and was published by an outlet with editorial accountability. Whether the underlying facts are correct, complete, or fair is between the reader and the outlet.
• Unverified — the source is something else: a social-media post, a community forum, a video clip with no outlet attribution. These reports survive because a user thought they were noteworthy, but no recognized newsroom has stood behind them. Read with appropriate skepticism.
• Disputed — a moderator has flagged the report. Treat it as actively contested until resolved.

A "verified" stamp is a statement about the link, not the person.

Rules of the room

• Source URL is required. No accusation without a citation.
• Frame subjects as persons of interest, not "guilty."
• No naming uncharged individuals without a cited source.
• No doxxing. No minors.
• Soft-deletes preserve an audit record for 90 days; reposting deleted material is a ban.

Why no email or phone?

Because we don't want it. Signing up asks for one thing: a username. We generate your password and a 40-character recovery key and show them once, as a file you download. Keep it somewhere private.

Lost the password? Enter your username and that recovery key at /recover and we issue a fresh pair — which retires the old one. Lose both and the account is gone; there's no email to reset against.

Takedowns

The takedown form is for unfounded user submissions — a Facebook rant, a forum post, a random video clip, anything filed here that shouldn't have been.

Takedowns are not a route to suppress news coverage. If a recognized news outlet published a story you believe is wrong, take it up with the outlet — they have a corrections process. We index what's already in public circulation; removing our link doesn't unpublish the original story.