"Police are/is"

[Rachel Adams]

This sentence is from the website below. Why is it "is" and not "are"?

"Japanese police is still investigating the size of Takabe's now lost collection."

https://fraze.it/n_search.jsp?q=Police+is&l=0

 

[slevlife]

It’s a mistake.

You linked to a search results page; not the original source. It’s easy to find examples of grammatical errors if you search for them.

 

[Rachel Adams]

It’s a mistake.

You linked to a search results page; not the original source. It’s easy to find examples of grammatical errors if you search for them.

No, it's the page with the example I posted. I opened it again. It worked.

 

[slevlife]

Yes, the link works. That’s how I know it’s Fraze.it’s results page from searching for “police is.” :roll:

 

[Rachel Adams]

It’s a mistake.

You linked to a search results page; not the original source. It’s easy to find examples of grammatical errors if you search for them.

Then it's not a reliable source for finding words in context. :roll:

Should I use this site instead https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc/?