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De-escalation Technology: The Impact of Body-worn Cameras on Citizen-Police Interactions
We provide experimental evidence that monitoring of the police activity through body-worn cameras reduces use-of-force, handcuffs and arrests, and enhances criminal reporting by the police. Stronger treatment effects occur on events ex-ante classified as low risk. Monitoring effects are moderated by officer rank, which is consistent with a career concern motive by junior officers. Our results stand in sharp contrast with previous literature which, due to often used coarser designs, showed muted or null body-worn camera effects on use of force. We show that these designs are likely to suffer from attenuation biases. Overall, our results show that body-worn cameras robustly de-escalate citizen-police interactions.
Date:
19 January 2023, 18:00
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Skills Lab or https://zoom.us/j/97316381707?pwd=WDdBVlJVVU1Ga3JnRW15c0RnNlE5QT09
Speaker:
Daniel AC Barbosa (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Part of:
Novel Ideas: MPhil Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Emma Heritage
