Police Shootings MCP server

@pipeworx/police-shootings

U.S. fatal police shootings since 2015 — aggregate counts, individual incident records (including the name of the person killed, as published), and per-agency breakdowns, proxied live from The Washington Post's Fatal Force database.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1784+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

(by state, year, race, armedwith, threattype, gender, mentalillness, or bodycamera). Never returns names.

• policeshootingssummary(group_by?, state?, year?) — aggregate counts

— individual incident records, including the name of the person killed. Small by default (limit 25, max 200); a truncated response carries truncated:true, total_matching, and a narrowing hint.

• policeshootings(state?, city?, year?, armedwith?, race?, limit?, offset?)

fatal-shooting count and breakdown by year/race/armed_with. Matches on a name fragment; returns a small list of candidates when more than one agency matches, rather than guessing.

• agency_shootings(agency, state?) — one law-enforcement agency's

Auth

Keyless. The upstream is a public CSV with no registration, key, or login.

Data sources

police officers in the United States since Jan. 1, 2015, plus the roster of law-enforcement agencies involved. Published under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); every tool response carries license and attribution fields so the terms travel with the data. This pack is a LIVE PROXY — it fetches the Post's published files fresh on every cache miss (6h edge cache, same as any normal client would cache) and never commits the dataset into this repo (CLAUDE.md "mirror-needs-grant-proxy-does-not": a per-request proxy call is not redistribution; bulk-copying the dataset would be, and the licence forbids that). Human-facing page: . Routes live only in src/index.ts.

• The Washington Post, Fatal Force database — fatal shootings by on-duty

Notes

published file this pack reads currently ends 2024-12-31 (verified live 2026-10-13) — there is no newer data to proxy. Every response's dataasof / datasetcoverage.maxdate reflects whatever the Post has actually published at call time, not a fixed claim.

• The Post's own README states the data is "updated regularly," but the

Brown case — not deaths in custody, off-duty shootings, or non-shooting deaths. It is not comprehensive beyond that scope (the Post itself notes undercounting is possible before reporting catches up).

• The Post tracks only on-duty police shootings paralleling the Michael

semicolon-separated in the source (e.g. "W;B", "gun;knife"). The race and armedwith filters in policeshootings/policeshootingssummary match if the requested value is ANY one of the semicolon-separated tokens.

• race and armed_with can carry more than one value per incident,

(semicolon-separated) when multiple departments were involved; agency_shootings joins on that list.

• agency_ids on an incident can list more than one agency

publishes them — nothing is added, inferred, or joined against any other people-data source.

• Names, ages, and other person-level fields are served exactly as the Post

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "police-shootings": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/police-shootings/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.