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TL;DR: Previous sociology research had suggested that filming people makes them more civil. New research on fails to replicate this result in the context of pol
by theptip 9y ago
TL;DR: Previous sociology research had suggested that filming people makes them more civil. New research on fails to replicate this result in the context of police body cameras.
Doesn't seem like a very interesting result to me; I hadn't previously heard of the "calming effect" as a reason to use body cameras.
The primary reason to use cameras is to increase accountability, so that police officers are less able to get away with murder, planting evidence, being overtly racist, etc.
- secfirstmd 9y agoAlso less false allegations against them
- alexandercrohde 9y agoExactly. (How is this at the bottom? I read every single response to this thread waiting to find somebody pointing this out.)
- gowld 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(legal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(legal)
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoCities have up to hundreds of autonomous precincts to comprise a single police department. Every single city and municipality has its own separate police department. States pass laws allowing for overlapping jurisdictions at their discretion. No study about "police officers" is going to address that. Elevating these studies to that level is going to continually get conflicting results. No person knows what a random internal police department's memo on what justified force is. Nobody will know if some local municipality had just reviewed and changed that standard, or if they are currently in a bout of actual corruption.