Bw Case Studies

Evaluating the impact of police officer body-worn cameras (BCWs) on response-to-resistance and serious external complaints: Evidence from the Orlando police department (OPD) experience utilizing a randomized controlled experiment by Wesley G. Jennings, Mathew D. Lynch, and Lordie A. Fridell is an empirical article whose purpose is self-explanatory within its title. In regards to limited scientific evidence and tragic high profile events such as Michael Brown and Eric Garners cases, Jennings, Lynch, and Lordie developed three questions: “Do police officers randomly assigned to wear BWC differ from officers not randomly assigned to wear BWCs in response-to-resistance (R2R) incidents and serious external (citizen-generated) complaints at a 12-month
It intended and accomplished to measure the effectiveness of BWCs among randomly assigned officers who wore BWCs and those randomly officers who didn’t. It sought to note any significant differences within twelve months of pre and post implementation. The last component it intended to measure was the attitudes and perceptions of the officers who wore BWCs 12 months after implementation. The independent variable is whether the randomly assigned officers wear BWCs or not and the dependent variable is the difference it makes on an officer's response-to-resistance incidents, serious external complaint and the officer's opinion on the BWCs. After identifying the geographical area/police sectors and acquiring officers to serve as participants their measurement analysis strategy was divided into three stages. The first stage consisted of a nominal level of measurement, the researchers did t-test comparison for the officer’s demographics such as their gender, race, age, and years of experience. The second stage relied on t-test comparisons of frequency/prevalence of response-to-resistance incidents and serious external complains between pre and post BWCs implementation therefore was an interval level of measurement knowing that at no time whether it was before or after the implementation there was an absolute zero point. The third stage was also an interval level of measurement because
Evidence for officers who didn’t wear a BWC also tailoring their behavior and overall obeying the rules even when not wearing a BWC due to the perceived vigilance is another great example of how strong this movement can be. Even the slightest amount of perceived scrutiny on both the police officer and citizen encounters, even if only one party is aware of being evaluated (controlled group and not the citizen) it can prevent confrontational situations. It would be interesting to do a study where the citizens who encounter the police are either informed not about the BCW and then do comparisons to note the difference it makes in deescalating confrontations and/or heightened