Police Shooting Stats API API ID: 5992

The Police Shooting Stats API provides structured access to statistical data on police shootings in the U.S., segmented by race and year. This API facilitates granular analysis of trends and patterns over time.
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The Police Shooting Stats API allows developers and researchers to access detailed statistics on individuals fatally shot by the police in the United States, as categorized by race and year. The API is designed to enable targeted data retrieval through specific endpoints with filtering capabilities, ensuring optimized data delivery.

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Endpoints


This endpoint allows users to retrieve statistical data on police shootings in the U.S. filtered by race and year. Users can specify parameters such as the race of individuals and the year of the incidents to analyze trends over time. Races: white, black, hispanic, other, unknown. Years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.


                                                                            
POST https://zylalabs.com/api/5992/police+shooting+stats+api/8011/police+shooting+stats+by+race+and+year
                                                                            
                                                                        

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INPUT PARAMETERS

race
year

API EXAMPLE RESPONSE

{"year":2017,"race":"White","total_incidents":458}

Police shooting stats by race and year - CODE SNIPPETS


curl --location --request POST 'https://zylalabs.com/api/5992/police+shooting+stats+api/8011/police+shooting+stats+by+race+and+year' --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"race":"Required","year":"Required"}'


This endpoint provides access to statistical data on the number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2024 by weapon carried.


                                                                            
POST https://zylalabs.com/api/5992/police+shooting+stats+api/8012/get+dead+stats+by+weapon+type
                                                                            
                                                                        

Free test requests remaining: 3 of 3.


INPUT PARAMETERS

year

API EXAMPLE RESPONSE

{"2024":{"Gun":545,"Knife":199,"Vehicle":46,"Toy weapon":19,"Unarmed":23,"Other":44,"Unknown":101}}

Get dead stats by weapon type - CODE SNIPPETS


curl --location --request POST 'https://zylalabs.com/api/5992/police+shooting+stats+api/8012/get+dead+stats+by+weapon+type' --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"year":"Required"}'


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After signing up, every developer is assigned a personal API access key, a unique combination of letters and digits provided to access to our API endpoint. To authenticate with the Police Shooting Stats API simply include your bearer token in the Authorization header.
Headers
Header Description
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Police Shooting Stats API FAQs

The API is designed with specific endpoints that allow for targeted data retrieval. You can filter the data by various parameters, including race and year, to optimize the information you receive based on your research needs.

The Police Shooting Stats API provides structured access to statistical data on individuals fatally shot by the police in the U.S., categorized by race and year. This allows for detailed analysis of trends and patterns over time.

The "police shooting stats by race and year" endpoint returns statistics on fatal police shootings categorized by race and year. The "get dead stats by weapon type" endpoint provides data on fatalities by weapon type used by individuals shot by police.

Key fields include "year," "race," and "total_incidents" for the race and year endpoint, while the weapon type endpoint includes the year and counts of fatalities for each weapon category, such as "Gun," "Knife," and "Unarmed."

The response data is structured in JSON format. For the race and year endpoint, it returns an object with year, race, and total incidents. The weapon type endpoint returns a nested object with years as keys and weapon type counts as values.

Users can specify parameters such as "race" (white, black, hispanic, other, unknown) and "year" (2017-2024) for the race and year endpoint. The weapon type endpoint does not require additional parameters, as it returns data for all weapon types.

The race and year endpoint provides data on fatal police shootings segmented by race and year, while the weapon type endpoint offers statistics on fatalities categorized by the type of weapon carried by individuals.

Users can customize requests by selecting specific races and years for the "police shooting stats by race and year" endpoint. This allows for focused analysis on particular demographics or timeframes.

Typical use cases include academic research on police violence trends, policy analysis for law enforcement practices, and advocacy work aimed at addressing racial disparities in police shootings.

Data accuracy is maintained through rigorous sourcing from official reports and databases on police shootings. Regular updates and quality checks ensure the reliability of the statistics provided by the API.

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