PoliceUSA Now a Member of Internet Archive

PoliceUSA is now a member of Internet Archive. The Archive is a permanent repository for all forms of media, including audio, images and video. We look forward to archiving all of our content to IA so that it can be shared with researchers and future generations.

Exercising our “right to remember”

What is a country without a memory of its cultural heritage? Paradoxically, with the explosion of the Internet, we live in what Danny Hillis has referred to as our “digital dark age.”

The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet - a new medium with major historical significance - and other “born-digital” materials from disappearing into the past. Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, IA is working to preserve a record for generations to come.

A Witness to History

We believe that the voice of American law enforcement is an important part of that record. Indeed, police officers stand as the most reliable witnesses of nearly every historic event.

A Complete Detailed, Accessible, Searchable Memory for Society

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to offer permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Today the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

“The Internet Archive is a service so essential that its founding is bound to be looked back on with the fondness and respect that people now have for the public libraries seeded by Andrew Carnegie a century ago…. Digitized information, especially on the Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm.

Civilization is developing severe amnesia as a result; indeed it may have become too amnesiac already to notice the problem properly. The Internet Archive is the beginning of a cure - the beginning of  complete, detailed, accessible, searchable memory for society, and not just scholars this time, but everyone.”

Stewart Brand, president, The Long Now Foundation