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Body camera recordings can be used in <br />audits to monitor officer compliance with <br />departmental policies, thereby enhancing <br />officer accountability. Departments are also <br />finding that the recordings can be useful <br />in scenario -based training by academy <br />staff, by full-time officers, and by in-service <br />trainers. Officers like (or at least come to <br />appreciate) body cameras because the <br />recordings often exonerate them in internal <br />affairs investigations. Moreover, research <br />suggests that the use of body camera <br />recordings tends to greatly reduce the <br />costs of internal affairs investigations. And, <br />perhaps most importantly, body cameras <br />give the community greater confidence <br />that their police department is acting in <br />the community's best interest and may <br />supply an objective record that the public <br />can use to inform their perspective on the <br />appropriateness of controversial police <br />actions. <br />i Lum, C., Stoltz, M., Koper, C. S., & <br />Scherer, J, A. (2019), Research on <br />body -worn cameras: what we <br />know, what we need to know. <br />Criminology & public policy, 18(1), <br />93-118. <br />ii Police Executive Research Forum. <br />(2017). Citizen perceptions of body - <br />worn Cameras: a randomized <br />controlled trial. https:// <br />perf.memberclicks.net/assets/ <br />bodyworncameraperceptions, pdf <br />iii Lawrence, D.S., Peterson, B.T., & <br />Thompson, P.S. (2018). Community <br />views of Milwaukee's Police Body - <br />Worn Camera Program. Urban <br />Institute. https://www.urban,org/ <br />research/publication/community- <br />views-milwaukees-police-body-worn- <br />camera-program <br />iv McClure, D., LaVigne, N,, Lynch, <br />M., Golian, G., Lawrence, D., & Malm, <br />A. (2017). How body cameras affect <br />community members' perceptions of <br />police. Urban Institute. https://www. <br />urban.org/research/publication/how- <br />body-cameras-affect-community- <br />members-perceptions-police <br />V Davis, R.C., & Johnson, K. (2019). Do <br />body cameras affect the quality of <br />victim -police interactions in field <br />Interviews. National Police Foundation. <br />https://www.policefoundation.org/ <br />publication/do-body-cameras- <br />affect-the-quality-of-victim-police- <br />interactions-in-field-interviews/ <br />Police Body Cameras: What Have We Learned Over Ten Years of Deployment? 1 21 <br />