NOPD Use of Force Incidents: Officer-Subject Interactions Archive

NOPD Use of Force Incidents (Archive) is a dataset from the New Orleans Police Department, last updated on April 27, 2021. It contains one row per officer-subject interaction for reported use of force incidents, with columns suggesting details on subjects, officers, and incident circumstances. The data is in an original format and is no longer being updated.

Use Cases

• Analyzing demographic disparities in police interactions using Subject Age, Subject Gender, and Subject Ethnicity columns.
• Modeling factors associated with Use of Force Level or Use of Force Effective using features like Officer Years of Service, Distance Between, and Weather Condition.
• Investigating correlations between incident outcomes (Subject Injured, Subject Hospitalized, Subject Arrested) and contextual factors like Shift, Light Condition, and Service Type.

Strengths

• Granular, officer-subject level detail for each incident, as indicated by the one-row-per-interaction structure.
• Includes 30 distinct columns covering officer demographics, subject characteristics, incident context, and outcomes.

Limitations

• Last updated 2021-04-27 19:33:43; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to the New Orleans Police Department's reporting.

Provenance

Source

New Orleans Police Department via data.nola.gov

Collection Method

Reported per NOPD Use of Force policy; initial reports subject to review.

Freshness

Static archive; last updated 2021-04-27.

Geography

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA