This report provides a descriptive overview of use-of-force incidents reported by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) from 2016 through 2025. Over this ten-year period, NOPD documented 4,605 use-of-force incidents involving approximately 5,595 individuals subjected to force. The most common types of force were exhibiting a firearm, which accounted for 33.4% of all force applications, and hands-on techniques, which accounted for 22.3%. More than three-quarters of all force applications were classified at the lowest severity level, L1. The majority of civilians subjected to force were male (84.4%), between 18 and 44 years old (75.2%), and Black (82.1%). Black residents accounted for 84.3% of individuals subjected to force while representing 54.6% of the parish population, a share well above their population proportion. Most civilians were arrested following the use-of-force encounter (75.0%). Subject injury rates increased over the reporting period, rising from 12.4% in 2016 to 26.7% in 2025. Ninety percent of incidents were found justified upon investigation, while approximately 1.5% were found not justified. This report is based on data obtained from NOPD’s publicly available open data portal and does not include incidents that may have gone unreported.