How police body cam videos impact jurors differently than dashcam videos
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 08:50
in Psychology & Sociology
A team of researchers at Northwestern University has found that people serving as mock jurors tend to view police officer intent differently when viewing events captured using body cams versus dash cams. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study, in which they used volunteers as stand-ins for jurors watching either real or staged police action video events.