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Two investigative journalists just launched something police departments across America hoped would never exist: a nationwide database where citizens can anonymously report officer misconduct without bureaucratic gatekeepers. The announcement came during a livestream that revealed the scope of police accountability problems they've uncovered while building the platform.
Breaking the Official Brady List Monopoly
Traditional Brady lists, maintained by prosecutors, only include officers with criminal convictions. The new database at guerrillapco.com accepts any allegation, complaint, or incident report against law enforcement. Users can search by officer name, badge number, city, or state without creating accounts or providing personal information.
The platform represents a partnership between Guerrilla News and accountability journalism groups whose merchandise and content faced repeated censorship. What started as an e-commerce solution evolved into something more ambitious when the team realized no public database existed for citizen complaints against police.
Anonymous Reporting Meets Public Access
The system operates on complete anonymity. Submitters cannot be traced, and the platform requires no registration or email addresses. Users can optionally provide contact information for follow-up from other complainants, but even that remains hidden from the database administrators.
Anyone can browse the submissions publicly, creating transparency that official channels typically suppress. The creators expect other journalists and accountability groups to use the database for investigation leads, potentially coordinating efforts across state lines.
Early Test Case Reveals Database Need
During the announcement, the journalists referenced their upcoming investigation into an Oklahoma police chief who allegedly committed misconduct across five different departments. The case required a second hard drive to store court documents and victim interviews, illustrating how officers often escape accountability by moving between jurisdictions.
This pattern of department-hopping makes traditional oversight nearly impossible. Individual police forces rarely share misconduct information, and citizens have no central place to report problems or discover if an officer has previous allegations elsewhere.
What the Database Cannot Prevent
The creators acknowledge their platform cannot stop false accusations or guarantee accuracy. A disclaimer shifts responsibility for unverified claims away from the database operators, but the legal implications for both submitters and subjects remain untested.
Police organizations will likely challenge the database through various means, though the anonymous nature makes targeting individual contributors difficult. The platform's survival depends on maintaining server capacity as submissions accumulate and avoiding legal pressure that could force content removal.
Watch the full announcement livestream to see how this unprecedented police accountability tool actually works and what cases are already being investigated.
