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                            Funding & Awards
 Research on the Impact of Technology on Policing Strategies
Award Information
Awardee
              CNA Corporation
Award #
              2013-IJ-CX-0016
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Arlington, VA
Congressional District
              8
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2013
Total funding (to date)
              $546,429
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Policing
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2013, $546,429)
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of Body-Worn Cameras (BWCs) in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) on negative police interactions with citizens.  This research project will entail process and outcome evaluation studies.  The process evaluation will consist of qualitative and quantitative analyses to study the introduction and implementation of BWCs in the LVMPD, and monitoring of the project fidelity to the experimental conditions and department policy regarding the use of BWCs by the officers and sergeants in the patrol division.  The process evaluation component will also develop several measures for the mediating effects of sergeants on the patrol officers' use of the BWCs.  The outcome evaluation component will consist of a cluster randomized experiment of approximately 400 patrol officers who will receive training on the use of BWCs while on duty (activating them during citizen encounters).  Officers' behavior when interacting with the public will be assessed through the measurement of four dependent variables related to citizen contacts and use of force using Hierarchical Linear Models (HLMs) to estimate the difference in average scores on the behavior index for pre- and post-implementation time periods and between the treatment and control groups.  Additionally, HLM regression analyses will explore the influence of intervening variables at the officer and sergeant level (e.g., officer and sergeant experience and comfort with technology, length of time in policing, and demographic variables).  Finally, a cost-benefit analysis will be conducted to estimate  officer time spent in court or on suspension due to negative behavior with citizens.ca/ncf



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Body-Worn Cameras: What the Evidence Tells Us
                  The Effects of Body-worn Cameras on Police Activity and Police-Citizen Encounter: A Randomized Controlled Trial
                  The Las Vegas Body-Worn Camera Experiment
                  The Las Vegas Body-Worn Camera Experiment: Research Summary
                  The Benefits of Body-Worn Cameras: New Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
                  Research on Body Worn Cameras: Meeting the Challenges of Police Operations, Program Implementation, and Randomized Controlled Trial Designs

  
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