Leading an Experiment in Police Body-Worn Video Cameras
Abstract
Body-worn video (BWV) is seen internationally as having the potential to reduce public complaints against police, police use of force, and attrition of prosecutions due to lack of physical evidence. Beyond the Cambridge trial in Rialto, California, however, no studies have tested the effects of BWV. The present study documents a Police leaders’ implementation of a randomized controlled trial of the use of BWV. The main objectives are to identify the challenges to implementing a trial and identify how they were overcome. The solutions to these challenges may provide key lessons for police leaders, not only as they undertake evidence-based testing, but also as they manage police operations and implement change.
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From Paradoxical effects of self-awareness of being observed: testing the effect of police body-worn cameras on assaults and aggression against officers (2018) · cites this paper as Drover and Ariel 2015
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Ariel, B., Farrar, W. A., & Sutherland, A. (2015) · Journal of Quantitative Criminology · doi:10.1007/s10940-014-9236-3 · Cited by 621 · see citing works
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Ariel, B., Sutherland, A., Henstock, D., Young, J., Drover, P., Sykes, J., Megicks, S., & Henderson, R. (2018) · Journal of Experimental Criminology · doi:10.1007/s11292-017-9311-5 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
Self-citationAriel, B., Sherman, L. W., & Newton, M. (2020) · Criminology · doi:10.1111/1745-9125.12231 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Drover, P., & Ariel, B.
- Affiliations
- West Midlands Police (GB)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Drover, Paul
- ORCID
- Ariel, Barak
- Venue
- International Criminal Justice Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-02-27
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 80-97
- ISSN
- 1057-5677 (ISSN-L)
- 1556-3855
- OpenAlex
- W2075786988
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5
- FWCI
- 62.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Criminal Justice Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Law and Evidence
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Keywords
- police leadership, randomized controlled trials, implementation barriers, evidence-based policing, police accountability, police use of force, organizational change
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