Top 9 Best Crime APIs & Alternatives (2021)

The Crime Data API provides data on crime depending on the location’s longitudes and latitudes. This API helps in the viewing of results and responses from crime mapping.

Pricing – The Crime Data API is free to use with unlimited requests.

Features – UK Police Open Data API provides data on neighborhoods’ safety standards, information on neighboring police teams, neighborhood event listing and police stops. The users can also gain access to any crimes that have been committed in a given area and the outcomes, police searches conducted in a given area and issues of priority from the police.

Pricing – This API is free for use with unlimited requests.

Features - The API works by allowing the users to input the coordinates of their locations, and then it returns the crime score as at the time of inquiry. It gives responses for the requests in CSV or JSON formats. With this API, the different users can get graded crime reports of between A and F grades.

Apart from this grading, the users can also get crime scores rated between 1 and 100. The CrimeScore API allows users to use the API on their applications or through the web using widgets. The advantage of this API is that it provides code snippets, descriptions for the endpoints and other resources for ease of use.

Pricing – CrimeScore API is free for use if the calls do not exceed 500 per month. It also offers paid plans such as the Pro plan offering 5000 calls per month for $50, the Ultra plan with 15000 calls per month for $100 and the Mega plan offering 50000 calls per month for $200.

This API provides the users with access to civic, local and open data programmatically sourced all over the United States.

Features – YourMapper2 offers a variety of information that a user may need, including categories such as public transport, sex offenders, crime, cultural attractions, car accidents, greenhouse gas emissions, bridge safety and health ratings of various restaurants. It offers response data in CSV, JSON, HTML and XML formats. The API also offers varying datasets to enhance both mobile and website integrated applications. Apart from the large database of information, the API offers response samples and documentation to aid usability.

Pricing – YourMapper2 is free for API calls less than 100. The Pro plan offers 1000 API calls for $5 monthly; the Ultra plan offers 10000 API calls for $50 monthly and the Mega plan offering unlimited calls for $200 monthly.

Features – If an individual needs information on arrests and bookings using individuals’ names, this is the best API. The users can also gain access to organizations that require the information through responses generated by the API in JSON formats. It is easy to use and allows the application developers to gain integration information from clear and well-explained documentation.

Pricing – This API is free to use with unlimited requests.

Pricing – The Walk Score API is free with unlimited requests.

Features - The API searches help to customize the users' preferences by providing parameters such as ‘searchby'. This process allows the user to narrow down their search to a given country, city or state. World Cities API gives the results of the query process in JSON format. The API is being customized to include searches by phone and country codes.

Pricing – This API is available for free if the requests do not exceed 300. The users can also opt for the paid plans like the Pro plan, which offers 1500 requests for $5, the Ultra plan, which offers 6000 requests for $15 monthly or the Mega plan offering unlimited requests at $30 per month.

Features – The NFLArrest API provides access to data pertaining to the crimes committed by the players in the NFL, the teams that hold the highest number of arrests, the positions held by players with the most arrests and the details of the crimes committed. This API gives an outlook of the total number of arrests that were made at a specific time of a year or month.

Pricing – The NFLArrest API is free for use with unlimited requests

CrimeoMeter API provides accurate data on crimes instantly.

Features - It also shows the information on maps and the location of the crimes in more than 50 US states and other cities worldwide. This API also offers a given location’s safety recommendation and Safety Quality Indexes (SQI) statistics. Once it has processed the requests, it returns the responses in JSON format.

Pricing – Crimeometer has a free basic plan for API calls that do not exceed 10. It also has paid plans beginning with the Pro plan offering 100 API calls for $30 monthly, the Ultra plan, which offers 1000 API calls for $249 and the Mega plan, which offers 5000 API calls for $490 monthly.