Wearing body cameras increases assaults against officers and does not reduce police use of force: Results from a global multi-site experiment

By Barak Ariel, Alex Sutherland, Darren Henstock, Josh Young, P. Drover, Jayne Sykes, Simon Megicks, Ryan Henderson. 2016

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The Deterrence Spectrum: Explaining Why Police Body-Worn Cameras ‘Work’ or ‘Backfire’ in Aggressive Police–Public Encounters (2018, methodology): “…behaving in a non-compliant way are ‘sufficiently high’—and the operative ingredient is the actor’s perception—then the non-compliant behaviour is expressly less likely to be preferred (see the review on these ‘sanction threats’ in Ariel et al., 2016, as well as in Ariel and Partridge, 2016).”
Report: increases in police use of force in the presence of body-worn cameras are driven by officer discretion: a protocol-based subgroup analysis of ten randomized experiments (2016, methodology): “We have previously reported results from a global multisite randomized controlled trial on the effect of BWCs on various outcomes, including use of force, complaints against the police, and assaults against officers (Ariel et al. 2016).”
Police Body-Worn Cameras: Effects on Officers’ Burnout and Perceived Organizational Support (2018, methodology): “Mixed results may be due, at least in part, to BWC research occurring in a post hoc manner following implementation using a range of methods (Cubitt, et al., 2017), or varying implementation across sites (Ariel et al., 2016b).”