Every figure comes from an official record: the 14 RGV cities' own budgets, audits, agendas and notices, U.S. Census Bureau data, FBI data, State of Texas records, or Pentagon records. Every fact carries a link to its source — the official document chip takes you to the original.
We use AI to read long documents and explain them in plain language, in English and Spanish. Nothing publishes until curlyphries goes into the source, verifies the information, and confirms it. Every AI summary is labeled as one, with the instruction to verify it against the original.
Before publishing an AI-extracted figure, the system confirms the number literally appears in the source document. If it doesn't, it isn't published. The figure verified in source badge means it passed that check.
This site presents the public record, not verdicts. When something isn't public — like police response times — we say so, and explain how to request it under Texas law.
The History page uses three public sources: the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimate files (1990 to today), the data each city’s own police department reports to the FBI — officers and offenses, back to 1990 — and the Texas Comptroller's monthly sales tax payments (the online record starts in 2013). A year an agency didn't fully report stays blank, never guessed. The only thing we compute is the per-1,000-residents rates: FBI crime counts divided by Census population, and we say so wherever they appear. Every figure is reviewed and confirmed by curlyphries against the source.
Errors we find get fixed and logged, dated, in the corrections log: what it said, what it says now, and why. Nothing is quietly deleted.