2018 Annual Report

FIGURE 15: ANONYMOUS COMPLAINTS

This chart of anonymous complaints captures when the complainant chooses not to give his or her name. Of the three anonymous complaints in 2018, two remain pending; the third was found to have No Formal Investigation Merited (NFIM). These findings are similar to those from 2017, where only 1 of 10 anonymous complaints was sustained.

Similar to 4 th Amendment complaints, there is no clear way to use NOPD’s data to identify anonymous complaints from nameless complainants in the data. The results may not reflect the actual number of anonymous complaints.