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What SSH Intel is

One honest picture of an Oahu area, built from several independent public signals instead of a single score.

SSH Intel is an area intelligence tool for Oahu. You pick an area, and it shows you what was actually recorded there: official police records, community reports, calls for service, traffic, weather alerts, public attention, and search demand. Each is a separate measure, shown side by side, for a period you choose.

An SSH Intel area report for Oahu, showing the plain-English bottom line and the four signal cards: Recorded, Reported, Noticed, and Sought.
One area, one period, every signal in one place: the report is the home of the tool.

It is built by Stolen Stuff Hawaii, the community network Michael Kitchens started in 2014. That network is the reason this tool can show things a police feed alone cannot: years of what neighbors saw, posted, and paid attention to, right next to the official record.

Why several signals instead of one number

A single "crime score" hides more than it shows. A quiet police record can mean a safe week or simply that few people reported anything. A spike in community posts can mean a real problem or one widely-shared story. By keeping each signal on its own axis, you can see where they agree and where they disagree, and disagreement is information, not error.

Think of it as instruments in a cockpit. No single dial "is" the flight. You read them together.

Who it is for

Property managers, small businesses, community boards, journalists, and anyone who needs a fair, sourced read on an area over time, rather than a rumor or a headline. If you manage more than one location, the Portfolio view brings your areas together.

What a session usually looks like

You open your area's report, read the plain-English bottom line, glance at the four headline signals, then either ask a question in Search or compare two areas. Five minutes, and you have a sourced picture instead of a guess.

One promise, everywhere. Every figure here is descriptive: a count of what was recorded, reported, noticed, or sought, in a stated past period, with its uncertainty shown. Nothing on this platform is a safety score, a grade, a ranking of places, or a prediction. That is a deliberate choice, and it is explained in What we will never do, and why.

Last updated 2026-07-15 HST