Leveraging body-worn camera footage to assess the effects of training on officer communication during traffic stops.

ABSTRACT: Can training police officers on how to best interact with the public actually improve their interactions with community members? This has been a challenging question to answer. Interpersonal aspects of policing are consequential but largely invisible in administrative records commonly used for evaluation. In this study, we offer a solution: body-worn camera footage captures police-community interactions and how they might change as a function of training. Using this footage-as-data approach, we consider changes in officers' communication following procedural justice training in Oakland, CA, USA, one module of which sought to increase officer-communicated respect during traffic stops. We applied natural language processing tools and expert annotations of traffic stop recordings to de

SUBMITTER: Camp NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11407283 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature