Police officers wearing body-worn cameras are more likely to face violence compared to those who aren’t, according to a new study.
Police officers wearing body-worn cameras are more likely to face violence compared to those who aren’t, according to a new study that also showed that the use of the equipment had no effect on the use of police force.
According to researchers at Cambridge and RAND Europe who studied camera use on 2,122 officers in eight departments in the U.S. and the U.K., on an average, assaults against officers were 15 percent more when they were wearing cameras. This effect was more in some areas.
“Using a prospective meta-analysis of multi-site, multi-national randomized controlled trials from 10 discrete tests with a total population of +2 million, and 2.2 million police...