Automated policing: the case of body-worn video

Bowling, Ben; Iyer, Shruti

doi:10.1017/s1744552319000089

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“…from an existing government database, or via real-time video surveillance) (Garvie et al, 2016; Klum et al, 2014; Norval and Prasopoulou, 2017; Slane, 2021). The range of public surveillance opportunities expand when you include images from body-worn cameras (Bowling and Iyer, 2019; Ringrose, 2019), drones (Bradford et al, 2020), and other surveillance cameras [e.g. closed-circuit television (CCTV)] (Dessimoz and Champod, 2016) and combine these with predictive policing technologies (i.e.…”

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“…body-worn cameras/video, drones). Yet despite these concerns, the work of police officers continues to be automated and replaced with various technologies (Bowling and Iyer, 2019; Hartzog et al, 2015). Although claims of efficiency, effectiveness, and reduced bias are often used to justify the move toward more-automated technologically-driven forms of policing, the contextual parameters of crime are lost when decisions are automated and human discretion is removed (Hartzog et al, 2015; Kotsoglou and Oswald, 2020).…”

Section: Concerns and Potential Risks Of Frt Use By Policementioning

confidence: 99%

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Police use of facial recognition technology: The potential for engaging the public through co-constructed policy-making

Hill

O’Connor

Slane

2022

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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In the face of rapid technological development of investigative technologies, broader and more meaningful public engagement in policy-making is paramount. In this article, we identify police procurement and use of facial recognition technology (FRT) as a key example of the need for public input to avoid undermining trust in law enforcement. Specifically, public engagement should be incorporated into police decisions regarding the acquisition, use, and assessment of the effectiveness of FRT, via an oversight framework that incorporates citizen stakeholders. Genuine public engagement requires sufficient and accurate information to be openly available at the outset, and the public must be able to dialogue and discuss their perspectives and ideas with others. The approach outlined in this article could serve as a model for addressing policy development barriers that often arise in relation to privacy invasive technologies and their uses by police.

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Police use of facial recognition technology: The potential for engaging the public through co-constructed policy-making

Hill

O’Connor

Slane

2022

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…In many ways, the story of BWCs is one of the state's surveillant (watching from above) reaction to a sousveillant (watching from below) citizenry, and reflect one aspect of the move towards what has been deemed "automated policing" (Bowling & Iyer, 2019) on one hand, and part of the "policing's new visibility" on the other (Goldsmith, 2010). With the rise of citizen bystander videos came widely circulated footage of police use-of-force, and in the wake of national outrage the institution of policing needed a counter-weight to demonstrate its point of view (B. C. Newell, 2021).…”

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Modeling Officer Perceptions of Body-worn Cameras: A National Survey

Adams¹

2022

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Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are a permanent, though not well understood, feature of modern US policing. As a technological solution to the perception that officers use force too often, BWCs have not fared well. This dissertation sidesteps questions of effectiveness, however, and instead investigates how the cameras are perceived by officers, and how variations in BWC policies affect perceptions of monitoring fairness. To do so, I use a national probability sample of officers (n = 529) drawn from a stratified sample of agencies across the United States.Theoretically, I draw primarily from two literatures. First, from the organizational psychology literature, which is where the vast majority of research on the individual-level effects of electronic workplace surveillance has been done. Second, I draw on the organizationaljustice literature, specifically elements related to how criminal justice employees form judgements of fairness regarding their workplace treatment. The results show how policy variation in BWC activation and footage review affect officer perceptions of fairnessboth on their own and interactively.

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“…Bowling and Iyer (2019: 152) state that ‘[m]anual processes have the virtue of human judgment and adaptability, and yield appropriate emotional responses such as attentiveness, sympathy and kindness’. In this understanding we can see that the ability to amend an approach to the context that is presented is going to be key to communicating respect for the individuals involved.…”

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‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice

Wells

Aston

Bradford

et al. 2022

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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In recent years, police forces in the United Kingdom have introduced various technologies that alter the methods by which they interact with the public. In a parallel development, many forces have also begun to embrace the concept of procedural justice as a method through which to secure legitimacy and (in turn) public compliance and cooperation. What has not received sufficient attention, within policing or academia, is the extent to which these two trends are compatible, with the procedural justice literature still predicated on an assumption that police–public ‘contacts’ or ‘encounters’ are in-person. The effect of technologically mediating police–public contacts on ‘policing by consent’, is therefore unknown. In this article, we focus specifically on the possible implications of the Single Online Home (SOH) (a portal through which the public can report crime, get updates on cases, give feedback and pay fines, among other things, which is currently being rolled out across forces), considering ‘interactions’ between police and public where there is no physical co-presence. Noting the unique context that is policing, we draw on the limited existing research on procedural justice encounters in technologically mediated contexts to explore whether procedural justice theory is ‘future-proof’ for a policing context increasingly reliant on such encounters. We conclude that, through empirical research, we must update our conceptual understanding of what ‘contact’ can mean, and accept that current developments may in fact be transforming relationships rather than simply facilitating existing ones.

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Automated policing: the case of body-worn video

Cited by 18 publications

References 37 publications

Police use of facial recognition technology: The potential for engaging the public through co-constructed policy-making

Police use of facial recognition technology: The potential for engaging the public through co-constructed policy-making

Modeling Officer Perceptions of Body-worn Cameras: A National Survey

‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice

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