Locus Area Crime Report

{
  "address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601",
  "available": true,
  "caveat": "Reported incidents are allegations, not convictions, and absence of records is not evidence of safety. Area-level counts only - no person, case, victim, charge, or exact-address detail. Not a safety verdict, score, ranking, or prediction.",
  "incidents": {
    "available": true,
    "caveats": [
      "Counts reflect the REPORTING INTENSITY of public incident records in this radius and window - not safety, not risk, and not a verdict about this property, block, or area.",
      "Reporting practices, patrol patterns, and population density all affect counts; more reports does not mean less safe.",
      "Records are aggregated and block-level; no person, victim, suspect, or exact address is included.",
      "This is a bounded count for the agent to interpret with the user - Locus does not label any place safe or unsafe."
    ],
    "lookbackDays": 365,
    "radiusMeters": 1000,
    "sources": [
      {
        "byClass": {
          "person_incident": 557,
          "property_crime": 784,
          "society_incident": 1457
        },
        "lookbackCovered": true,
        "sourceName": "City of Raleigh - Police Incidents (NIBRS)",
        "sourceUrl": "https://data-ral.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/raleigh-police-incidents-nibrs",
        "total": 3111
      }
    ]
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "county": "Wake",
    "municipality": "Raleigh",
    "state": "NC"
  },
  "measurementBoundary": {
    "doesNotMeasure": "all victimization, safety, risk, convictions, unreported incidents, or what happened at one address",
    "localEstimateProduced": false,
    "localPrecision": "coarsened_point_radius",
    "measures": "reported incidents / law-enforcement records from the cited source scope",
    "noAddressLevelInference": true
  },
  "note": "Cited public reported-crime context (free). Awareness/diagnostic only. Full briefs are x402-paid. Agents can discover live free tools at https://api.locus.report/tools/list and paid tools, prices, and manifests at https://api.locus.report/.well-known/ai-tool/index.json.",
  "sourceMode": "local_reported_incident_feed",
  "suppressedFields": [
    "raw_rows",
    "case_numbers",
    "names",
    "mugshots",
    "exact_incident_addresses",
    "victim_or_suspect_addresses",
    "victim_demographics_local",
    "offender_demographics_local",
    "local_demographic_breakdowns",
    "ecological_inference",
    "survey_fusion_adjustments",
    "victim_offender_relationship",
    "weapon_detail",
    "arrestee_detail",
    "narratives"
  ],
  "surveyContext": {
    "available": true,
    "caveats": [
      "NCVS is survey context, not local proof about one address or jurisdiction.",
      "Locus does not use NCVS to estimate hidden local crime or adjust local reported-incident counts.",
      "Locus does not fuse NCVS with NIBRS/local feeds or run ecological inference for local demographic patterns.",
      "Survey sampling, weighting, scope, margins of error, and reporting behavior affect interpretation."
    ],
    "doesNotMeasure": "Local address, block, parcel, street, agency, county, or radius incident counts.",
    "kind": "ncvs_survey_context",
    "localEstimateProduced": false,
    "localUse": "caveat_only",
    "measures": "Nonfatal personal and household property victimization, including incidents reported and not reported to police.",
    "notFusedWithLocalCounts": true,
    "scope": "national_survey",
    "sourceLayer": "bjs_ncvs_survey",
    "sources": [
      {
        "fetchedAt": "2026-09-23T01:10:01.077Z",
        "recordId": "NCVS",
        "sourceName": "BJS - National Crime Victimization Survey",
        "sourceUrl": "https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs"
      },
      {
        "fetchedAt": "2026-09-23T01:10:01.077Z",
        "recordId": "NCVS_API",
        "sourceName": "BJS - National Crime Victimization Survey API",
        "sourceUrl": "https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-crime-victimization-survey-ncvs-api"
      }
    ]
  }
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-area-crime-report' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-area-crime-report' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.locus.report%2Fapi%2Flocus-area-crime-report&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.locus.report/api/locus-area-crime-report", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://api.locus.report/api/locus-area-crime-report",
        json={
            "address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)