2018 Annual Report

Statistical Review of NOPD's Use of Force

Section IX: Research Based Areas For Future Analysis

For at least two years (2017 and 2018) OIPM has raised concerns about NOPD use of force policing patterns regarding African American civilians in New Orleans. Currently both African American women and African American men experience the highest levels of most types of UOF. In next year’s report, we hope to investigate and explore the reasons for these trends.

OIPM recommends that NOPD’s Pubic Integrity Bureau and Professional Standards & Accountability Bureau work with OIPM to develop a methodology for researching this area. OIPM also suggests that both agencies work together to figure out potential outside partner agencies that have an expertise in this area to work with NOPD and OIPM to get maximum and dully understand the results from this process. OIPM recommends that a joint report between OIPM and NOPD be released by the end of 2019 and/or by the time of the OIPM 2019 Annual Report that documents the findings of the research.