The left was convinced that Body Cameras on Police were the answer to put police in prison instead of perpetrators.
Remember where you heard it back then ? I said cops wont mind body cameras and they wont be the weapon against Police that everyone wanted them to be.
Police body cameras are not providing the type of irrefutable evidence that law enforcement and civil rights advocates had expected, according to the most comprehensive study of the technology to date.
“Although officers and citizens are generally supportive of [body camera] use, [they] have not had statistically significant or consistent effects on most measures of officer and citizen behavior or citizens’ views of police,” says a recent report from the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Key findings show that body-worn cameras tend to reduce complaints against police. But researchers said it is unclear whether that is because improved officer conduct has led to fewer complaints or because citizens who know they are being recorded are less likely to file complaints.
The research also found that it was hard to determine whether cameras improved citizen satisfaction with individual police encounters despite the technology’s promise of improving accountability among police and the public.
The research is based on 70 empirical studies from around the world that explored the impact of body-worn cameras on police behavior, perceptions and investigations, and citizen and community behavior and perceptions.
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