fbi.crime.national_offenses
Retrieve monthly national Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) crime statistics from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Returns raw offense counts, rates per 100,000 population, and clearance counts by month for the requested offense type and date range. Offense types include violent-crime, property-crime, ho...
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What fbi.crime.national_offenses does on Apibase
AI agents call fbi.crime.national_offenses to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
to_month | string | — | End month in MM-YYYY format (e.g. 12-2022). Defaults to last full year. |
from_month | string | — | Start month in MM-YYYY format (e.g. 01-2019). Data available from 01-1979. |
offense_type | string | Yes | FBI UCR offense category. violent-crime (murder+rape+robbery+assault), property-crime (burglary+larceny+auto+arson), or individual offense type |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why fbi.crime.national_offenses is rated Low
Tool retrieves public FBI crime data with no side effects or modifications.
From the tool's definition Retrieve monthly national crime statistics, returns offense counts and rates
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The rule that runs fbi.crime.national_offenses safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For fbi.crime.national_offenses, this is the rule to start with:
fbi.crime.national_offenses is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every fbi.crime.national_offenses call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about fbi.crime.national_offenses
Retrieve monthly national Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) crime statistics from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Returns raw offense counts, rates per 100,000 population, and clearance counts by month for the requested offense type and date range. Offense types include violent-crime, property-crime, homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated-assault, burglary, larceny, motor-vehicle-theft, and arson. Data covers the full US participating law-enforcement agencies (95%+ population coverage). Source: FBI UCR / CDE, US Gov public domain, api.data.gov, no auth required. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
fbi.crime.national_offenses accepts 3 parameters: to_month, from_month, offense_type. Required: offense_type. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for fbi.crime.national_offenses: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
fbi.crime.national_offenses is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the fbi.crime.national_offenses rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for fbi.crime.national_offenses. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
fbi.crime.national_offenses is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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