Niles Flock Records Show Abrupt Shift in How Police Documented Searches

After Case # fields were blank in 93.4% of June records and 88.4% of July records, the blank rate fell to 8.2% in August. Hundreds of later records contained entries such as “NA,” “1,” “PCS” and “zz,” whose meanings are not established by the records produced by Niles. A deeper Niles Connect review of 5,719…

31% of Niles Flock Search Records Had a Blank Case Number Field

Update, September 2, 2026: Additional analysis of the records found that some Flock searches with a blank Case # field contained what appear to be case numbers in the separate Reason field. The original analysis correctly found that 1,781 of 5,719 records, or 31.1%, had a blank Case # field. That figure should not be…