Methodology

Scope

Pedro tracks public-source incidents relevant to preparedness, public safety, disruption monitoring, and trend analysis. The goal is to preserve incident-level visibility rather than headline-level noise.

Tracked Categories

• Shootings, stabbings, assaults, robberies, homicides, and other violent incidents
• Fires, explosions, hazmat events, suspicious packages, and gas leaks
• Major crashes, fatal crashes, transportation disruptions, and road closures
• Water rescues, drownings, recoveries, and rescue operations
• Police activity, tactical responses, manhunts, lockdowns, and active public-safety investigations
• Severe-weather impacts, flooding, outages, evacuations, and infrastructure disruptions

Exclusions

Pedro generally excludes metaphorical keyword matches, entertainment content, sports, routine opinion content, vague social chatter, scanner-only claims without support, routine court updates, and historical retrospectives that do not identify a qualifying current or late-breaking incident.

Source Types

Source references may come from official public-safety agencies, emergency management sources, transportation feeds, local news, regional news, and other public references. Source links are preserved for verification and context.

Time Handling

Pedro distinguishes between when an incident occurred and when a source published or updated information. If exact timing is unavailable, records may be marked as date-only, unknown, or limited by source reporting. Publication time is not automatically substituted for occurrence time.

Confidence and Verification

Confidence scores and verification labels are based on source quality, incident clarity, corroboration, timing certainty, and location certainty. Official or multi-source records may receive stronger confidence. Single-source or unclear records may receive lower confidence or remain unvalidated.

Deduplication and Record Updates

Pedro may merge duplicate references when they clearly describe the same incident. Separate incidents are preserved when timing, location, or source context indicates they are distinct. Records may later be corrected, reclassified, merged, or removed as stronger information becomes available.

Important Limitation

Pedro is a public-source analysis system, not an emergency dispatch service, official public-safety channel, or substitute for local authorities. For emergencies, call 911 and follow official local guidance.