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Police Body Worn Cameras: Citizen and Officer Perceptions
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Police Body Worn Cameras: Citizen and Officer Perceptions

Matthew S. Crow, John Ortiz Smykla, Jamie Snyder and Vaughn J. Crichlow
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology: The Politics of Crime & Justice (Washington, DC, 11/18/2015–11/21/2015)
11/19/2015

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Abstract

In the wake of several recent high-profile incidents involving police shootings, public interest in and demand for police body-worn cameras (BWC) has reached new heights. Following the release of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing that concluded there is a role for technology to play in building trust and accountability, President Obama requested $75 million in new federal spending to help pay for 50,000 BWCs. Police departments around the country are quickly adopting BWCs, despite a relative dearth of information regarding community or officer perceptions of the costs and benefits of this technology. Pilot studies in the UK and US are suggestive that BWCs can potentially reduce the prevalence of police use-of-force and complaints against officers (Goodall, 2007; Ariel & Farrar, 2013; White, 2013) and a survey of officers in central Florida suggests officers are generally supportive of the technology (Jennings et al., 2014). In order to increase knowledge in this area, this poster reports findings from two waves of officer and resident surveys conducted in two distinct jurisdictions.

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