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It'd be trivial to find evidence of that in the data. They said that the number of use of force incidents was the same in the camera and non-camera groups. If t
by darawk 9y ago
It'd be trivial to find evidence of that in the data. They said that the number of use of force incidents was the same in the camera and non-camera groups. If the cops were disabling their cameras in anticipation of these events, these events would not show up in their camera recordings.
- 1024core 9y agoOr it could also mean that, camera or not, the cop could get away with anything as if the camera wasn't present.
- avn2109 9y agoThere are many other possible interpretations of the data, besides the one you provide above. E.g. the cops can do lots of shady stuff that isn't a "use of force incident."
- darawk 9y agoYes, but that'd show up in the data. If there were complaints against them, and those happened to coincide with the cameras being off, that's a very easy thing to detect in the data.
- mcguire 9y agoAs far as I can tell, there is no analysis of the video data mentioned in this article. They're only comparing numbers of complaints with and without cameras.
- donald123 9y agoIt's not trivial to find that in the data. The cops are not required to keep the camera on all the time, or at least there is no consequence not doing so. They got the number from "administrative data", basically just police reports and civilian complaints, etc. Nothing related to the camera data at all.