After years of delays, the New Orleans Police Department says it is finally compliant with national crime data reporting standards, following the debut this month of a cloud-based, artificial intelligence-powered records management system.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell called the switch to the Mark43 system “a day we have been longing for” during a Tuesday media briefing.

With the launch, NOPD at last comes correct with the national "incident-based" reporting system, or NIBRS, that the FBI transitioned to in 2021. In addition to enabling more efficient and accurate crime reporting, compliance may help New Orleans to again tap federal grant funds for crime victims that it lost due to crime reporting lapses.

Those lapses cost organizations at least $1 million in 2024 and 2025, according to a Tim

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