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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth
I just heard a radio feature last night in fact about a town in CA that decided to experiment and record all their officers interactions with the public. This included video and audio from the cruiser as well as directly on the officer - if riding with a partner only 1 officer wore the recording device.
I can't remember the time period they compared the results, but in the first month of them self recording:
Police complaints dropped from 24 on average to 3. ( -80% )
Incidents where use of force occurred went from an average of 60 to 17. ( -71.7% )
- even more interesting is the fact that the officer that was wearing the self recording equipment in over 2/3 of these incidents wasn't the one that would engage in the use of force- his partner would.
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I'd be interested to see if there was any change in crime rate during this period. I have no idea but would be interested...