MCP for AI agents

Crime Data API offers an MCP server over Streamable HTTP at https://crimedata.dev/mcp. No API key is required for MCP access. Start with crime_coverage to inspect supported cities, sources, licences and freshness, then request incident statistics. Retain returned provenance and coverage information when presenting results to users or other tools.

Last updated: 2026-11-04

Connect to https://crimedata.dev/mcp using Streamable HTTP. No API key required. Check coverage before interpreting results; reports are not convictions or predictions of personal risk.

• crime_coverage: covered cities, sources, licences and freshness.
• crime_incidents: recent incidents near coordinates or a US address, up to 50 rows.
• crime_stats: counts by category, month, hour and weekday, plus trends.
• crime_compare: compare 2–5 coordinate points with the same radius; use points: "lat,lon;lat,lon".
• crime_score: within-city incident density score and grade over the city's last 12 months; outside incident coverage, city-wide FBI fallback when available, with no grade.

Free limits: 60 tool calls per hour per IP, radius at most 1,000 m, no bounding boxes. Incidents, stats and comparisons cover the last 180 days and accept whole dates; incidents return at most 50 rows. Score uses its separate 12-month window. Coordinates or US addresses work for area tools; compare requires coordinates.

Connect: what should you know?

Claude: add the endpoint as a remote connector where your plan supports custom connectors. ChatGPT: add it as a remote MCP app in developer mode where available. Features and access depend on your client and plan.

Cursor: add to .cursor/mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "crime-data": { "url": "https://crimedata.dev/mcp" } } }

For clients requiring an explicit transport:

{ "mcpServers": { "crime-data": { "type": "http", "url": "https://crimedata.dev/mcp" } } }

Example prompts: what should you know?

• Claude: “Check crime_coverage, then summarize reported incident categories within 500 m of Union Square in San Francisco over the last 90 days. Cite the source and freshness.”
• ChatGPT: “Use crime_score at 37.788, -122.4075 with a 500 m radius. Explain the window and why this is not a prediction of personal risk.”
• Cursor: “Use crime_compare for 37.788,-122.4075;37.7599,-122.4148 within 500 m. Explain coverage limitations and show the returned attribution.”

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Data comes from each city's open-data portal under the licence shown. It is police-reported incident data, not convictions, and can be revised by the source. Compared with the FBI API · Terms · Refunds · Privacy · DPA · Contact
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