Additional Resources on Body Cameras
Studies on body camera programs
- New York, NY – New York City Department of Investigation, The Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD, Body-Worn Cameras in NYC: An Assessment of NYPD’s Pilot Program and Recommendations to Promote Accountability, 26–29 (July 2015), available at http://www.nyc.gov/html/oignypd/assets/downloads/pdf/nypd-body-camera-report.pdf
- San Diego, CA – Press Release, San Diego Police Dept., One Year Analysis of Body Worn Camera Use in three Patrol Divisions (Sept. 9, 2015), available at http://www.sandiego.gov/police/pdf/2015/09-09-15OneYearBWCAnalysis.pdf
- Also available: YouTube press conference
- Rialto, CA – Tony Farrar and Barak Ariel, Self-awareness to being watched and socially-desirable behavior: A field experiment on the effect of body-worn cameras on police use-of-force (2013), available at http://www.policefoundation.org/sites/g/files/g798246/f/201303/The%20Effect%20of%20Body-Worn%20Cameras%20on%20Police%20Use-of-Force.pdf
- Denver, CO – Nicholas E. Mitchell, Denver Office of the Independent Monitor, 2014 Annual Report 7-35 (2015), available at https://www.denvergov.org/content/dam/denvergov/Portals/374/documents/2014_Annual_Report%20Final.pdf
Resources from policing organizations and government agencies
- Bureau of Justice Assistance, Department of Justice, Body-Worn Camera Toolkit, available at https://www.bja.gov/bwc/
- Police Executive Research Forum, Implementing a Body-Worn Camera Program: Recommendations and Lessons Learned, v (2014), available at http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/472014912134715246869.pdf
- Michael D. White, Office of Justice Programs Diagnostic Center, Police Officer Body-Worn Cameras: Assessing the Evidence 19 (2014), available at https://www.ojpdiagnosticcenter.org/sites/default/files/spotlight/download/Police%20Officer%20Body-Worn%20Cameras.pdf
Scientific research on memory and the effects of viewing video
- Morgan, Southwick, Steffian, Hazlett, Loftus, Misinformation can influence memory for recently experienced, highly stressful events, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 36 (2013) 11–17, available at https://webfiles.uci.edu/eloftus/Morgan_Misinfo_IJLP2013.pdf?uniq=-5q3yfp
- Jeffrey L. Foster, Thomas Huthwaite, Julia A. Yesberg, Maryanne Garry, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Repetition, not number of sources, increases both susceptibility to misinformation and confidence in the accuracy of eyewitnesses, Acta Psychologica 139 (2012) 320–326 (repeated viewing increases the chances that officers will remember video as their own perception), available at https://webfiles.uci.edu/eloftus/Foster_Repetition_ActaPsych2012.pdf?uniq=7a5h8l
- Elizabeth F. Loftus, Planting misinformation in the human mind: A 30-year investigation of the malleability of memory, Learn. Mem. 2005 12: 361-366; http://learnmem.cshlp.org/content/12/4/361.full
- Zaragoza, M. S., Belli, R. F., & Payment, K. E., Misinformation effects and the suggestibility of eyewitness memory, in DO JUSTICE AND LET THE SKY FALL: ELIZABETH F. LOFTUS AND HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE, LAW, AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM 35–63 (M. Garry and H. Hayne eds., 2007), available at http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mzaragoz/publications/Zaragoza%20chapter%204%20Garry%20Hayne.pdf
- Kathy Pezdek, Should Cops Get to Review the Video Before They Report? THE MARSHALL PROJECT (Aug. 13, 2015), available at https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/13/should-cops-get-to-review-the-video-before-they-report
- Lara Boyle, Malleable Memories: How Misinformation Alters Our Perception of the Past, YALE SCIENTIFIC (April 1, 2013), available at http://www.yalescientific.org/2013/04/5227/