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Body-worn cameras “do not significantly change the disparity between the numbers of Black and White misdemeanor arrests. This finding may imply that BWC implementation is not an effective antidote for officers' explicit racial biases in law enforcement. It may support the supposition that racial disparities in policing result from officers' implicit biases or from institutionalized racism within policing practices."

Do Body-Worn Cameras Change Law Enforcement Arrest Behavior? A National Study of Local Police Departments Do Body-Worn Cameras Change Law Enforcement Arrest Behavior? A National Study of Local Police Departments Table 4: Heterogeneous Effect of BWC Implementation on Arrest Rates According to the Proportion of Non-Whites in the Population Table 4: Heterogeneous Effect of BWC Implementation on Arrest Rates According to the Proportion of Non-Whites in the Population
Do Body-Worn Cameras Change Law Enforcement Arrest Behavior? A National Study of Local Police Departments
American Review of Public Administration
Pyo, Sunyoung
in Press, 2021
10.1177/0275074020982688
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