The Wait is Over: BJA provides over $3 Million for BWC
With additional funding in 2022, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and Justice & Security Strategies, Inc. (JSS) announced their second round of funding for body worn-cameras for small, rural and tribal (SRT) agencies. Awards are in process for 140 jurisdictions across the country. Over $3 million was awarded in the second round. Read more…
Digital Evidence: How do we manage BWC footage?
Body-worn cameras have proliferated across the United States. With the increase in cameras, policing agencies are also seeing exponential growth in the amount of the video footage and storage space, and are seeing the need for more personnel and resources to manage BWCs. Read more…
Impacts of BWCs on Police: What do we know in the short-term and long-term?
The first controlled experiment of the effects of BWCs was conducted in Rialto, CA in 2012-2013. This mid-size city of 107,000 with about 150 sworn and civilian employees tested the use of cameras on 54 patrol officers over a one-year period. Read more…
Policies for SRTs: What do we know? How do we create a policy?
“Body-worn camera policies among policing agencies are similar regardless of the size of the agency.” Research by White, Patterson, and Malm (2021) indicates that there are relatively few differences in the policies of extra-small, small, medium, and large departments. Read more…
Implementing a BWC Program By Dr. Craig D. Uchida
The adoption of body-worn cameras (BWC) has increased dramatically since In 2016 the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that nearly 60% of municipal police and over 49% of sheriffs’ agencies had deployed BWCs. Read more…