MISPLACED SUSPICIONDesign Against Crime · Incident Reporting

Crime Reporting Center / Independent Record

Make the pattern visible. Preserve the record.

For engineers, designers, founders, firms, and colleagues documenting suspected misuse of suspicion to disrupt work, autonomy, reputation, relationships, or continuity.

You can report a concern even when you fear retaliation. A name and contact address are optional. A unique incident number is issued when a report is actually saved.

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Break the Loop: a torn-paper diagram of how suspicion can reinforce itself.
The approved Break the Loop artwork.

Design Against Crime

A place to begin the record.

Use this center to document reported retaliation, suspected framing, exclusion from engineering or design work, interruption of business operations, records or authorship disputes, displacement, hospitalization or other serious disruptions. Explain what happened and what supports your account. A reported motive remains separate from observed events.

Why this record matters: In a 2023 UK Survation study of 280 software engineers, 75% of the 116 respondents who had reported workplace wrongdoing said they faced retaliation the last time they spoke up. This is a finding about surveyed UK software engineers, not a claim about all engineers. Read the study summary.

1 · Describe events2 · Note evidence3 · Save private record4 · Receive incident number

Email alternative: designagainstcrime@misplacedsuspicion.com routes incoming mail into the private archive. The email channel does not yet send an automatic incident-number receipt. Use the form below for an immediate numbered confirmation.

Independent reporting, not an emergency or police filing. This center keeps a private intake record; it does not itself file a report with a government agency, determine guilt, or establish a police incident number. If you need urgent help, contact local emergency services. Agency referral or record sharing is not automatic.

01 · Who is making the report?
Leaving this blank is allowed; no automatic email is sent.

If reporting about another person, minimize identifying or medical details and share them only with appropriate permission or lawful basis.

02 · What happened?
Example: September 2026, or ongoing since March 2026.
Start with the actions, dates, documents, conversations, or decisions you can identify. Minimum 30 characters.
Describe interrupted projects, work, relationships, housing, business operations, or other impacts without including detailed medical records.
Your interpretation will be kept distinct from the events and evidence you describe.
03 · Evidence and next steps
List recordings, messages, documents, case or event numbers, witnesses, or original files you hold. File uploads are not enabled in this first intake; keep originals intact.
A request for review, later contact, preservation, or consideration for an authorized referral is not an automatic external submission.

Your report is not publicly displayed. The incident ledger is private to this service; access to the underlying database requires authorized Cloudflare account permissions. Do not enter passwords, Social Security numbers, payment credentials, complete medical records, or other unnecessary secrets. No guaranteed confidentiality, legal privilege, government authority, or law-enforcement partnership is implied.

Your number will appear on the confirmation page only after a successful database write. Save that receipt. Do not close the page before you have it.