New Orleans Police Reports with Offender and Victim Demographics

Police reports filed by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) include incident and supplemental details. The dataset contains fields for charges, disposition, location, and demographic information for both offenders and victims, such as age, gender, and race. It is published by the City of New Orleans for transparency and is updated as investigations progress.

Use Cases

• Analyzing crime trends over time using the Occurred_Date_Time and Disposition columns.
• Investigating demographic patterns in crime by cross-referencing Offender_Race, Offender_Gender, Victim_Race, and Victim_Gender fields.
• Mapping incident reports at the block level using the generalized Location data.
• Studying the relationship between reported charges (Charge_Description, Charge_Code) and case outcomes (Disposition).

Strengths

• Contains detailed demographic annotations for both offenders and victims across multiple columns.
• Published for transparency by an official city organization (data.nola.gov).
• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov signals its official status and importance.

Limitations

• Addresses are generalized to the block level to protect victim privacy, limiting precise geospatial analysis.
• The data contains acknowledged entry errors, such as negative age values.
• Conflicting last update dates exist between sources (2026-04-05 vs 2026-03-31), and row counts are unknown.

Provenance

Source

New Orleans Police Department (NOPD)

Collection Method

Official police reports filed by NOPD officers, published as-is from source systems.

Time Range

2017 onward

Freshness

2026-04-05 04:48:14.696900

Geography

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA