{"id":19184,"date":"2015-10-14T13:28:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19184"},"modified":"2015-10-14T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T18:29:30","slug":"huffpo-study-shows-less-violence-fewer-complaints-when-cops-wear-body-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19184","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo: Study Shows Less Violence, Fewer Complaints When Cops Wear Body Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/police-body-camera-study_561d2ea1e4b028dd7ea53a56\">Study Shows Less Violence, Fewer Complaints When Cops Wear Body Cameras<\/a> by Nick Wing, Senior Viral Editor [whatever that is, unless it&#8217;s related to being an epidemiologist]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Equipping police with body cameras may be an effective way to improve the behavior of officers and the public with which they interact, a new study finds.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nLast week, researchers at the University of South Florida released their report on a yearlong body-worn camera pilot program at the Orlando Police Department, in which they randomly selected 46 officers to wear the devices and compared them against 43 officers who did not.<\/p>\n<p>In the 12 months from March 2014 through February 2015, use-of-force incidents &#8212; also known as &#8220;response to resistance&#8221; incidents &#8212; dropped 53 percent among officers with the cameras. Civilian complaints against those officers also saw a 65 percent decline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: Study Shows Less Violence, Fewer Complaints When Cops Wear Body Cameras by Nick Wing, Senior Viral Editor [whatever that is, unless it&#8217;s related to being an epidemiologist]: Equipping police with body cameras may be an effective way to improve &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19186,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184\/revisions\/19186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}