Police Body Cameras Reduce Violence, Says Yet Another Study

Last night, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed to use a portable camera at the police in the "Black Life Issues" section of the Democratic presidential candidate debate. It is a good idea. Previous studies have shown that obliging employees to wear cameras often reduces police and civic violence. In a new study by researchers at the University of South Florida, the Orlando police were randomly assigned to the body camera and lasted one year. As a result of the survey, we found that violence decreases when the camera is worn. Fox News coverage:

In the year following the start of wearing a human body camera by half of the executives, the use rate of military power decreased from 5 points to 6 points, more than 50%.

"The extent and nature of this reduction is substantial," said Dr. Wesley Jennings, one of the three authors of the study.

Officials who received public complaints said they used too much electricity from 0.26% to 0.09%.

"They know that it is recorded and that the evidence is not everywhere," Jennings said. "They do not want much to improve their activities."

The Jennings team also conducted a survey of these officers and learned that most people were doubting that wearing these devices will change their behavior first

But since this year most officers who have cameras want to keep them, most people who do not have cameras want them.

"As a society, we can certainly advocate agencies - law enforcement agencies using these body mounted cameras," Jennings said

Yes. As early as 2013, I insisted that my article "Watching the police is a polite officer," and that all police should be asked to wear a camera

However, the police station looking at your LAPD here wants to protect the video from public secrets. This policy harms public confidence and is never forgiven

Advocates of police using body cameras say cameras can increase transparency and accountability and reduce police and anti-police violence. They also said that the evidence provided by the human body camera demonstrated or refuted the allegations of the police illegal act, was an excellent tool for police training and received strong public support. Police opponents who use body cameras said the camera could put an excessive burden on the device and put it under continuous video surveillance pressure and this is because human physical and mental health . They say that they increase the risk of sensitive or weak victims and criminal witnesses, and their use impairs the trust of the community. They also said they are too expensive and unreliable

After a terrible police brutality at Pittsburgh High School, the activist again asked forced use of human cameras for all police. Supporters say that records between civilians and police have reduced police violence and protected policemen by providing objective accident evidence to authoritative authorities, judges and journalists . However, skeptics point out that body cameras can cause privacy problems for police and citizens and that the cost is too high. What do you think? It is very promising to study the influence of human body camera on the interaction between citizen and police. In a one - year survey conducted in Orlando, the use of force by officials using cameras has declined by 53%. Civil suits also declined 65%. Other tests have been shown to be promising as well

In another study on how human camera reduces citizen complaints, Mesa Police Department conducted a one year survey devoted to reducing complaints. The pilot program consisted of two groups, with a designated body camera for 50 patrols and a body camera for 50 people. The demographics of the two groups were similar, and were assigned patrol tasks. This study, conducted jointly with the University of Arizona, concluded that citizen complaints due to patrol without body cameras are three times greater than citizen complaints. Furthermore, in this survey, we concluded that patrol officers who did not wear a body camera used 40% of complaints of citizens and 75% of complaints of power without body camera in the previous fiscal year.