New Orleans, LA

New Orleans, Louisiana has accumulated $82 million in tracked police settlement exposure in the PoliceRiskIndex dataset, covering the period from 2012 through 2023. The city's average daily accrual rate of $28,088 - based on a ten-year historical average - reflects a high per-incident settlement value relative to the size of the department, making New Orleans one of the highest per-capita exposure jurisdictions in the national index.

The New Orleans Police Department entered a federal consent decree in 2013 following a Department of Justice investigation that documented a pattern of unconstitutional use of force, unlawful stops and searches, and a culture of impunity within the department. The consent decree established an independent monitoring team and required comprehensive reforms across use-of-force policy, supervision, and accountability systems. Settlement activity in the dataset spans the period of active consent decree compliance monitoring.

The concentration pattern in New Orleans is significant. PoliceRiskIndex data shows that 78.4% of the city's total tracked settlement exposure is attributed to ten named officers appearing in official court records and settlement documents. This concentration ratio - nearly four-fifths of total exposure concentrated among ten individuals - is consistent with the broader national pattern documented across all ten cities in the dataset, where a small percentage of the force accounts for the majority of fiscal liability.

New Orleans settlement data is sourced from Louisiana state court records, federal court PACER filings, and reports from the court-appointed consent decree monitor. Named officer records are reproduced directly from official court documents. PoliceRiskIndex does not investigate, accuse, or characterize any individual; all records reflect information already documented in official government sources.

For actuarial and risk modeling purposes, New Orleans represents a mid-tier exposure jurisdiction with a high concentration ratio and a well-documented consent decree compliance history. The dataset is classified as Active in the PoliceRiskIndex system, with quarterly updates as new settlement records become available in public records.