Access to SSH Intel does not oblige you to cite us. When you do, these are the same citation forms the press kit gives, and every search answer carries a citation line.
The citation wording
- One line (articles, captions, chart credits): "Data: Stolen Stuff Hawaii (sshintel.com). Counts of HPD records and community reports." This fits most stories.
- On screen (chyron or graphic): "Source: Stolen Stuff Hawaii".
- Spoken (anchor read): "according to Stolen Stuff Hawaii, which tracks recorded and community-reported activity across Oahu".
- Spoken, for a series we compiled (the agency publishes only the current figure): "the figures are from [agency]; the hour-by-hour record is Stolen Stuff Hawaii's".
The press kit also has a longer note for a methodology box. When you write about the product itself, name it "SSH Intel, by Stolen Stuff Hawaii" on first mention and "SSH Intel" after that (License section 7 accepts either form). On the web, a link to sshintel.com is welcome but not required.
Say which record you are quoting
Police figures are Honolulu Police Department records, cited as HPD records via SSH Intel: the record belongs to HPD, and we are a view of it, never "the official record" itself. Community figures are community reports to Stolen Stuff Hawaii: unverified reports from residents, a separate signal. Keep the two apart; the press brief prints them in separate columns.
Quoting the newest month
The latest complete month is provisional for about 30 days while late HPD records arrive, and every page says so. Quote it as provisional ("preliminary figures show...") or use the month before, which is final. If a figure you quoted has moved and you want to know why, ask press@stolenstuffhawaii.com.
What may run word for word
The quotable lines in the Monthly Press Brief are written to be used word for word with the citation shown. If you shorten a line, keep the counts with the percentage: a percentage without its counts misleads when the numbers are small, which is why we never publish one without the other.
What we will not support
Our data describes what was recorded. It does not support a "most dangerous", "safest", or ranked-places framing, and if you ask the product for one it will decline and say why. A story built on our figures can say what was recorded, where, and how that compares with earlier months; the verdicts stay out.
Corrections and questions
Write to press@stolenstuffhawaii.com: a person reads it, and corrections come first. Include the figure, the area, and the period, and we will trace it to its source. See how every number is measured (Methodology) and how complete the data is (Data quality).
Last updated 2026-09-30 HST