Body-Worn Cameras (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
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Description

This is a voluntary program to implement body cameras to be worn by police officers. The goal is to reduce abuse of police force incidents and civilian complaints.
Police officers are required to turn on their cameras as soon as they encounter certain incidents and turn them off when they have completed their approach. Recordings must be classified by type of event and cannot be viewed by police officers, except in specific situations, such as investigations and court appearances, where the recordings are considered evidence in the case.

Impact evaluations

The impact assessment found a 12.5% reduction in complaints about use of force by the police, a 14.0% reduction in citizen complaints, and a 5.2% increase in arrests [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Braga, A. A., Sousa, W. H., Coldren Jr., J. R. & Rodriguez, D. (2018). The effects of body-worn cameras on police activity and police-citizen encounters: A randomized controlled trial. The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, 108(3), 511–538. https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic…

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