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Published · transcript-backedRachel Harmon: belief
17 Jun 2020 Conversations with Tyler Rachel Harmon on Policing
“Of course, most of the data we get is officer-reported, so they’re useful. It’s not clear whether body cams are going to be an important form of data in policing, but I suspect, over time, they will be.”
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- Rachel Harmon
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- belief
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- 17 Jun 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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- Rachel Harmon on Policing
Transcript context
…If you think of body cams as a form of data on police behavior, would having a body cam on each officer be an effective way of improving the quality of conduct? I would start with the premise, which is that body cams are data. So far, body cams are anecdote. As machine learning gets better, they are becoming data, and they’re getting more useful in that way. But body cams are one perspective on an encounter. Of course, most of the data we get is officer-reported, so they’re useful. It’s not clear whether body cams are going to be an important form of data in policing, but I suspect, over time, they will be. 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?…
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