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New Study: Officer Fatigue Raises Likelihood of Citizen Complaints

Fatigue and sleepiness on the job significantly raise the odds of officers drawing citizen complaints during their shift, according to a newly published study by a team of sleep specialists. Their first-of-its-kind analysis finds that public complaints are roughly seven times more likely to occur on shifts with a traditionally high probability of officer tiredness—primarily,...
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New BWC Study Confirms Positive Impact On Police Performance

Now comes another study of how body-worn cameras impact police performance, this one suggesting that the public is correct in its general belief that body cams decrease complaints of officer misconduct and use of force. More than 400 patrol officers and sergeants from the Las Vegas Metropolitan PD—predominately white males with 9-10 years on the...
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New Study: Do Body Cams Lose Their Behavioral Effect Over Time?

You may recall the world’s first study of the effect of body-worn cameras on officers’ use of force and on citizens’ complaints against police. Conducted with the Rialto (CA) PD and published in 2014, this benchmark research showed that during a year that some officers were equipped with body cams, use-of-force incidents dropped about 50%...
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More On World’s First Study Of Body-worn Cameras In Action

A groundbreaking study of body-worn cameras first reported by Force Science News 18 months ago has now been published in a professional journal, with additional commentary. An abstract of the research can be accessed free of charge, with an option to buy the full study, by clicking here, which will take you to the website...
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Survey Officer Attitudes Before Issuing Body Cams, Researchers Urge

For bests results, it’s important for agencies contemplating the adoption of body-worn cameras to survey their officers’ attitudes about this equipment before issuing it, says a research team of experts on this increasingly hot technology. Understanding the “extent to which officers are open” to wearing cameras and “their views on the positive and negative aspects...
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New Study Measures Impact Of Body Cams On Complaints, Force Use

Fewer citizen complaints, fewer uses of force. According to a yearlong field study by a police department in southern California, those are the dual benefits of having patrol officers wear body cameras that record their public interactions. Indeed, the experiment has yielded such an “amazing” outcome that Chief William Farrar of the Rialto PD told...
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