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Published · transcript-backedRachel Harmon: belief
17 Jun 2020 Conversations with Tyler Rachel Harmon on Policing
“I’m a lawyer, but I try to follow the social science in this area, and I can tell you that what we know right now is that the results of studies of body cameras, at least in terms of if you’re studying whether they reduce complaints or whether they reduce uses of force, the studies are, at best, mixed. I would say the evidence that they do good in these respects is pretty weak.”
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- Rachel Harmon
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- Recorded
- 17 Jun 2020
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
- Episode
- Rachel Harmon on Policing
Transcript context
…But do you think police would behave better if they knew they were always being taped? Some people say they’ll just turn off the body cam, or you won’t be able to prosecute them anyway. What’s your empirical view? I’m not a social scientist. I’m a lawyer, but I try to follow the social science in this area, and I can tell you that what we know right now is that the results of studies of body cameras, at least in terms of if you’re studying whether they reduce complaints or whether they reduce uses of force, the studies are, at best, mixed. I would say the evidence that they do good in these respects is pretty weak. But what’s your intuition as to why they’re not a clear winner? We’re doing a podcast, in essence, with a body cam. We’re, of course, super nice anyway, but we’re going to be super nice to each other. Why doesn’t that just work across the board?…
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