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SUBMITTER: Turner BL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347687 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190107 4
Police departments use body-worn cameras (body cams) and dashboard cameras (dash cams) to monitor the activity of police officers in the field. Video from these cameras informs review of police conduct in disputed circumstances, often with the goal of determining an officer's intent. Eight experiments (<i>N</i> = 2,119) reveal that body cam video of an incident results in lower observer judgments of intentionality than dash cam video of the same incident, an effect documented with both scripted ...[more]