FBI Wanted API
Strategic intelligence access to advance public safety
This API is best for law enforcement, non-governmental organizations, and media outlets to gain strategic intelligence access.
The FBI Wanted API is a great resource for developers who are looking to build public safety applications or other law enforcement applications. With real-time access to the FBI’s Wanted data, developers can filter through results and view wanted posters for specific individuals or groups. This API can also be used to generate HTML conversion of wanted posters to be shared easily.
Key features
- Real-time access to the FBI’s Wanted data. Ability to filter results by specific criteria such as name
- aliases
- physicals
- sex
- eyes
- hair color
- and weight. HTML conversion of wanted poster that can be shared.
Potential use cases
- Crime tracking app: Develop a mobile application which allows users to see the most wanted criminals around them and assist law enforcement in tracking them down.
- Public Safety dashboard: Create a dashboard to be used by law enforcement and government officials in order to visualize and analyze trends in the most wanted criminals.
- Criminal Identification: Create an application which can use facial recognition and other identification techniques to identify wanted criminals.
This API has really helped our business in our efforts to build public safety applications. The real-time access to Wanted data has helped us gain insights and identify criminals quickly, ultimately increasing public safety.
Related Technologies
- FBI Data Warehouse API
- FBI Crime Data Explorer API
- National Data Exchange (N-Dex) API