Body Cam Study Shows No Effect On Police Use Of Force Or Citizen Complaints
That's the conclusion of a study performed as Washington, D.C., rolled out its huge program. The city has one of the largest forces in the country, with some 2,600 officers now wearing cameras.
by Nell Greenfieldboyce
Oct 20, 2017
3 minutes
Having police officers wear little cameras seems to have no discernible impact on citizen complaints or officers' use of force, at least in the nation's capital.
That's the conclusion of a study performed as Washington, D.C., rolled out its huge camera program. The city has one of the largest forces in the country, with some 2,600 officers now wearing cameras on their collars or shirts.
"We found essentially that we could not detect any statistically significant effect of the body-worn cameras,", a researcher with the Metropolitan Police Department and a group in the city government called the .
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