Police Shootings

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Police Shootings MCP — The Washington Post, Fatal Force database

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police_shootings_summary

Aggregate counts of U.S. fatal police shootings since 2015, from The Washington Post Fatal Force database. Group by state, year, race, armed_with, threat_type, gender, mental_illness, or body_camera;

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police_shootings

Individual fatal police shooting incidents (including the name of the person killed), from The Washington Post Fatal Force database. Filter by state, city, year, armed_with, and/or race. Small by defa

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agency_shootings

One law-enforcement agency's fatal-shooting count and breakdown (by year, race, armed_with), from The Washington Post Fatal Force database agency roster. Matches on a name fragment (e.g. "Sacramento P

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/police-shootings/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/police-shootings/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"police_shootings_summary","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("police_shootings_summary", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("police shootings mcp — the washington post, fatal force database");