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Don't Just Watch. Fight Back.
Cities are counting on your silence. They're cutting police budgets line by line, hoping no one notices. We notice — and so do you. Here's how to make your voice impossible to ignore.
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Add your name to the We Back Blue community. We'll send you our investigations, budget alerts, and action items when your city is on our radar.
Advocacy Resources
Tools to Take the Fight to City Hall.
Every investigation we publish is designed to be used. Here's how to put the data to work.
Download Our Budget Audit Template
A step-by-step guide for requesting and analyzing your city's police budget. Built for officers, union reps, and concerned citizens with no finance background required.
Contact Your City Council Member
Find your representative and send them our latest findings. We provide a pre-written letter you can customize and send in under two minutes.
Share the Investigation
The most powerful thing you can do is make sure your community sees the numbers. Share our reports on social media, in your neighborhood group, or at your next city council meeting.
Support We Back Blue
This project runs on the support of people who refuse to stay quiet. Visit WeBackBlue.com to learn how to get involved with the broader movement.
Submit a Tip
Know Something? Tell Us.
Officers, department insiders, and concerned citizens can submit tips confidentially. Every tip is reviewed by our investigations team. We never publish a source without explicit consent.
What makes a strong tip?
- • Specific dollar amounts or budget line items
- • Dates of decisions or announcements
- • Names of officials or departments involved
- • Any documents, emails, or meeting minutes
Become a Local Correspondent
We Can't Cover Every City. You Can.
Our investigations team is small. The problem isn't. If you live in a city where police budgets are being quietly gutted — and you're willing to attend a council meeting, pull a public record, or just keep your eyes open — we want to hear from you.
- Get our research templates and FOIA request guides
- Receive early access to our investigations before publication
- Your city gets prioritized in our reporting queue
- Full anonymity available — we protect our sources
Fund the Mission
This Work Costs Money. Cities Are Counting on Us Running Out.
Every FOIA request, every data analysis, every investigation we publish is funded by people like you — not by government grants, not by political donors, not by anyone with a stake in the outcome. We answer to the badge and the truth.
Every dollar keeps a city honest.
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