A drop in false complaints could be a factor, but the study tentatively weighs the officer behavior the bigger change: > Specifics on how exactly this is happe

A drop in false complaints could be a factor, but the study tentatively weighs the officer behavior the bigger change: > Specifics on how exactly this is happening are unclear. Is the officer less confrontational to begin with, avoiding escalation? Or are suspects and complainants more wary of their conduct? Is it some combination of the two, or are even more factors involved? To determine these things would be a far more complex and subtle piece of research, but the study does suggest that officer behavior is probably the most affected, and that other effects flow from that. It would be interesting if they could capture how many complaints there are generally, and how many complaints in areas deploying body cameras are dis/proved due to video evidence.