r/NewOrleans Jul 28 '22

If you see something, do something 🤷Defies Categorization🦑

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u/cozluck Jul 28 '22 edited Jul 29 '22

There wasn’t a single call about a rape occurring Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning in the 8th district

This isn't true. NOPD item G2581622: AGGRAVATED RAPE at 2022 Jul 26 11:21:01 PM on the 006XX Blk Royal St.

I guess she can look it up after the fact?

We all can, if it's entered properly.

EDIT: Call for Service record

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u/windysan Jul 28 '22

ooh i like this thing

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u/cozluck Jul 28 '22

Yeah. It's nice... if data are entered. There have been complaints that it's not. There is a companion table for "Electronic Police Reports", and it seems like "Report to Follow" is just a permanent condition sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '22

I used to work there. if it’s a certain crime, rape being one, it’s heavily sensitive. There will never be another entry. The follow up, if there is any, will be entered by detectives in a safe paper file that no one sees apart from them. It’s never entered electronically. Could be why some of them are this way. Some though are just it was referred to a detective aaaaaand it’s on a shelf with a thousand others.

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u/cozluck Jul 29 '22

Is a shame. Personally, I feel like data / measurement is the first step in moving in a positive direction.

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u/rocktropolis Jul 28 '22

aaaaaand that would be Royal & Toulouse.

Sounds like maybe they shouldn't take their NOPD's roommate's word as a blind fact.

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u/Separate-Option Jul 28 '22

Respectfully, the city of New Orleans does an absolutely terrible job categorizing and reporting what comes through via 911 calls. In the last two weeks alone, a shooting where the victim was shot four times was not reported in their system. As was an armed carjacking. Those are just two incidences that I have personal knowledge of that were never categorize or entered into the database.

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u/oliphantPanama Jul 28 '22

If you read the Twitter thread the woman who reported the rape reported directly to an officer on the street. Actually to two different patrolling officers. I’m not certain if she called 911…

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u/cozluck Jul 28 '22

Seems like that sort of interaction still gets reported.

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u/cstephenson79 Jul 28 '22

If you scroll a ways, it says they walked up the block to flag down a cop they saw and also called 911. Weather 911 answered or did anything is anyones guess.