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How this place works.
The Division is a public research program. We take open sources — things anyone can read — and turn them into something usable: live tools and sourced answers. This page is the one-minute tour.
What it is, in one line
We gather public information, host our own instruments so nothing rots behind a dead link, and count the things public sources do not tally. Everything here is free, and nothing is collected about you.
The instruments — where to go first
These are tools we built and host ourselves. If you only open one thing, open one of these.
Live instrumentNTAS Monitor
Answers: is the US national terror alarm on, and how many federal bulletins have there been? A live status, a count by year, the full history back to 2015, and a table of which alert channels the public can actually count. Built because no public tally existed.
Open the monitor → Live instrumentMissing Persons Console
Two desks, one intake. An investigator desk routes real queries into NamUs, Charley Project, Doe Network, NCMEC and state clearinghouses, and flags when the same person shows up in two indexes under two spellings. A family desk builds a print-ready flyer and the exact filing order, and states plainly what it did and did not search.
Open the console → Live instrumentEarth
Answers: what is happening on the ground right now. A real map pulling a live USGS earthquake feed, plus the mapping and geological tools worth knowing.
Open the live map →The rest of the rooms
Research
Sourced reads on questions with no published answer. Every claim carries a source, and every hole is named as a hole.
Read the research →International
Past the border: INTERPOL's notice system, Europol, and which layers the public may actually read.
Open the international layer →Tools we vouch for
Free outside tools worth using. Each one checked, each one labelled with what breaks and why.
Browse the tool list →Method
How we work: a five-stage cycle, open sources only, and a hard rule against conclusions that arrive faster than the evidence.
See how we work →How to use it
- Start with a question, not a page. "Is the alarm on?" "How many bulletins this year?" "Where did the quake hit?"
- Open the instrument that answers it and read the number. If a tool links out to a live source, that link is deliberate — we would rather point at the real feed than fake a live page.
- Check the source. On any research page, the claims carry links. If a claim has no source, treat it as our read, not as fact.
- Where the record is empty, we say so. A named gap is a real answer. A confident guess is not.
What it costs
Nothing. No account, no paywall, no tracking. If the work is useful and you want to help cover the domain and the hours, there's an optional campaign — donating changes nothing about what you can read.
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