# Violence

Evidence-linked firearm incident records with source and collection health metadata.

## Access

- Kind: api
- Audience: public
- Access: open
- Authentication: No authentication is required for documented public read operations.
- Lifecycle: beta
- Observed health: degraded

## Integration links

- Base URL: https://violence.datasourceapi.com
- Status: https://violence.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
- Repository: https://github.com/coopalliance/violencedb
- Catalog metadata: https://services.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/services/violence

## Capabilities

- firearm-incidents
- incident-research
- source-tracking

## Provenance and freshness

- Evidence-linked public sources: Incident records retain source links and collection metadata; automated fields may be incomplete.

Update cadence: Continuously collected with status-visible collection runs and historical shards.. Metadata last verified: 2026-09-03.


## Agent readiness

limited (38/100): The service explicitly warns that incident records and automated fields are incomplete; verify every result against its cited source.

## Examples

### Service status

Inspect source coverage, collection runs, and historical shards.

```http
GET https://violence.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
```