Two records, one year: community reports beside the official record
For the first time, a full year of community reporting sits beside the official record. They are different instruments: an official record is an entry in HPD's public system; a community report is an unverified resident submission to the Stolen Stuff Hawaii network, including the historical SSH community archive. Shown side by side, month by month, they tell you what each one measures.
The year, month by month
| Month | Official (HPD) | Community reports |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2025 | not yet in coverage | 349 (partial month) |
| Aug 2025 | 1,902 (partial month) | 436 |
| Sep 2025 | 2,525 | 374 |
| Oct 2025 | 2,385 | 373 |
| Nov 2025 | 2,286 | 432 |
| Dec 2025 | 2,306 | 515 |
| Jan 2026 | 2,303 | 526 |
| Feb 2026 | 2,076 | 696 |
| Mar 2026 | 2,359 | 1,164 |
| Apr 2026 | 2,179 | 649 |
| May 2026 | 2,353 | 723 |
| Jun 2026 | 2,384 | 607 |
HPD coverage begins August 8, 2025, so July 2025 has no official figure and August is a partial month. Community capture begins July 6, 2025, so July 2025 is a partial community month. Figures are the monthly issue records for Oahu islandwide; community counts include the placed (geocoded) reports that flow into area figures.
One steady, one responsive
The official record held inside a narrow band all year: between 2,076 and 2,525 recorded incidents in every full month. The community record varied nearly threefold, from 374 to 1,164, rising through the winter, peaking with the March flood, and settling back through the spring. That difference in movement is the difference in instruments, not a contradiction: the official record counts what was reported to and recorded by police, while community reporting moves with events, with what residents choose to share, and with participation and capture channels.
What only one of them measures
Over the same year, community members logged 2,795 lost-and-found reports and 1,513 pet reports. The official crime feed recorded none in those domains, and it never would: a found wallet or a missing dog is not a crime. Roughly speaking, the community record's largest single use is one the official record does not serve at all. In the other direction, the official record counts a large volume of incidents that never surface in community posts.
Why we never add them together
Some incidents appear in both records; many appear in only one. Summing them would double-count some events and invent a precision neither source has, so the platform keeps them on separate axes, labeled, with the divergences shown as findings rather than reconciled away.