NOPD Use of Force: Officer and Subject Incident Reports

Nightly updated records of use of force incidents reported by the New Orleans Police Department, with each row representing a single incident. Data includes officer and subject demographics, force details, outcomes, and contextual factors like weather and light conditions, with multiple participants per incident concatenated within fields. The New Orleans Police Department provides a disclaimer regarding the accuracy and completeness of the information.

Use Cases

• Analyzing demographic disparities in police encounters using Subject Ethnicity, Subject Age, and Officer Race/Ethnicity.
• Assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of force applied with Use of Force Effective, Subject Injured, and Subject Hospitalized.
• Investigating the context and justification for incidents using Use of Force Reason, Subject Influencing Factors, and Disposition.
• Tracking incident review and administrative status via Investigation status and Working Status.
• Examining environmental and operational conditions with Weather Condition, Light Condition, and Shift.

Strengths

• Data is updated nightly, suggesting a high update frequency.
• Provides a detailed, flattened structure capturing multiple officers and subjects per incident with aligned multi-value fields.
• Contains a wide array of contextual columns, including environmental factors and administrative details.

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, dataset size, and specific license are not provided across sources.
• The disclaimer explicitly states the department does not guarantee accuracy, completeness, or timeliness.
• The number of rows does not represent the number of times force was used, complicating direct frequency analysis.

Provenance

Source

New Orleans Police Department (NOPD)

Collection Method

Reported per NOPD Use of Force policy, with initial reports subject to a review process.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-11 07:30:10 (from Socrata).

Geography

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA