One size doesn't fit all: The deployment of police body-worn cameras to specialty units

JE Gaub, N Todak, MD White - International criminal justice …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Although body-worn cameras (BWCs) have diffused rapidly in law enforcement both in the
United States and abroad, questions have emerged regarding the potential utility of BWCs …

Is there a civilizing effect on citizens? Testing the pre-conditions for body worn camera-induced behavior change

Q Patterson, MD White - Police quarterly, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The cause (s) of reduced use of force and complaints following police body-worn camera
(BWC) deployment remain unclear, though some argue that BWCs generate a civilizing …

Do police body-worn cameras reduce citizen fatalities? Results of a country-wide natural experiment

J Miller, VF Chillar - Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2022 - Springer
Objectives This study assesses the effects of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on rates of
fatalities arising from police-citizen encounters. While existing experimental research has …

Officer diversity may reduce Black Americans' fear of the police

JT Pickett, A Graham, J Nix, FT Cullen - Criminology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Would police racial and gender diversification reduce Black Americans' fear of the police?
The theory of representative bureaucracy indicates that it might. We tested the effects of …

Testing the evidentiary value of police body-worn cameras in misdemeanor court

N Todak, JE Gaub, MD White - Crime & Delinquency, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We test whether the presence of police body-worn camera (BWC) evidence impacts case
filing, processing, and outcomes, using data from over 50,000 misdemeanor cases charged …

Toward victim‐sensitive body‐worn camera policy: Initial insights

A Saulnier, A Couture‐Carron… - Criminology & Public …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary Despite constituting a substantial portion of police contacts,
victims in general, and violence against women (VAW) survivors in particular, have received …

Activate compliance: A multilevel study of factors associated with activation of body-worn cameras

R Boivin, B Poirier, M D'Elia - Criminal justice review, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Body-worn cameras (BWCs) have quickly become popular tools in law enforcement. In
theory, BWCs have the capacity to record all the time. However, due to privacy, legal, and …

Canadian policing and body-worn cameras: Factors to contemplate in developing body-worn camera policy

A Saulnier, J Bagg, B Thompson - Canadian public policy, 2021 - utpjournals.press
Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are increasingly being used by police worldwide. This study
demonstrates that, as of 2019, at least 36 percent of Canadian police services have …

[PDF][PDF] Conducting a systematic social observation of body-camera footage: Methodological and practical insights

V Chillar, E Piza, V Sytsma - Journal of Qualitative Criminal …, 2021 - assets.pubpub.org
Increased use of video recording technologies such as drones, smartphones, CCTV, and
body-worn cameras (BWCs), provides researchers with modes for observing human …

Drivers of police agencies' resistance to body-worn camera adoption

V Andreescu, D Kim - International Journal of Police Science …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Although the use of video-recording technology in policing is on the rise in the United States,
not all police agencies in the country are following this trend. Using Law Enforcement …