Community Guidelines

1. Why We Exist

Rate My Agency exists for honest, first-hand, upward feedback about what it is actually like to work at a law enforcement agency. We are equally here to recognize great agencies and great leaders, not just to collect complaints. Recruits use this site to find quality departments; write what you would want to have known.

2. Write Reviews That

• Reflect your own direct experience at the agency or with the supervisor.
• Focus on professional conduct: leadership, training, morale, fairness, accountability, and culture.
• Are specific enough to be useful and fair enough to be credible.
• Give credit where it is due, even in an otherwise critical review.

3. Never Include

• Personal identifying information. No home addresses, phone numbers, license plates, family details, schedules, or off-duty locations of anyone. This is an officer-safety rule and is enforced with zero tolerance.
• Confidential material. No sealed, classified, or internal-only information, and nothing that could compromise an ongoing investigation or tactical safety.
• Unsupported criminal accusations. Do not accuse a named person of a specific crime unless it is a matter of public record, such as a charge, conviction, or sustained finding.
• Threats, harassment, or hate. No threats or incitement, no slurs, no targeting people over protected characteristics.
• Fake content. No fabricated experiences, no reviews of agencies where you never worked, no review trading or coordinated campaigns.
• Names of non-supervisors. Reviews may name the agency and listed supervisors only, not line-level coworkers or private citizens.

4. One Review Each

You get one review per agency and one per supervisor. If your assessment changes, update your review rather than creating another account. Duplicate accounts are removed.

5. Flagging and Enforcement

Every review, agency, and supervisor page has a Report tool. Moderators evaluate flags against these Guidelines and may remove content, warn, suspend, or ban accounts. Every moderation action is recorded in an internal audit log. We act on rule violations, not on viewpoints: a review will not be removed merely for being negative, or positive.

6. If You Are Reviewed

Officers and agencies: if content about you breaks these rules, use the Report tool and it will be evaluated like any other flag. Creating accounts to inflate your own ratings or to bury criticism violates these Guidelines.

7. Appeals

If you believe your content was removed in error, contact us via the About page with the review in question and why you believe it complies. See also our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.