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Police body cameras 'cut complaints against officers'
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37502136

Police body cameras can dramatically reduce the number of complaints against officers, research suggests.

The Cambridge University study showed complaints by members of the public against officers fell by 93% over 12 months compared with the year before.

Almost 2,000 officers across four UK forces and two US police departments were monitored for the project.

Dr Barak Ariel, who led the research, said no other policing measure had led to such "radical" changes.

The study aimed to find out if the use of cameras, which are usually clipped to the top half of an officer's uniform, affected complaints against police made by the public.

The experiment involved police from Northern Ireland, the West Midlands, West Yorkshire, and Cambridgeshire, as well as the Rialto and Ventura police departments in California, working for a total of almost 1.5 million hours.

The findings, published in the journal Criminal Justice and Behaviour, showed there were 113 complaints made against officers during the year trial period, compared with 1,539 in the 12 months before - a reduction of 93%.

'Dramatic change'

Dr Ariel, who is based at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, said: "I cannot think of any [other] single intervention in the history of policing that dramatically changed the way that officers behave, the way that suspects behave, and the way they interact with each other."

He said the results indicated both police and the public were adjusting their behaviour.
"Once [the public] are aware they are being recorded, once they know that everything they do is caught on tape, they will undoubtedly change their behaviour because they don't want to get into trouble.

Why is this not wider policy? The US could certainly use that (or give cameras to black people, /s)
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You also need to make it so they can't turn off their body cams...

A good idea, though. It's not a wider policy, because some people don't want the racism to end.

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