Public Perceptions of the Justifiability of Police Shootings: The Role of Body Cameras in a Pre- and Post-Ferguson Experiment

By Scott E. Culhane, J. Boman, Kimberly Schweitzer. 2016

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Community Perceptions of Police Body-Worn Cameras (2017, background): “In an effort to examine the impact of video on citizen perceptions of a police shooting, Culhane et al. (2016) compared citizens’ views of whether a shooting was a justifiable homicide before and after the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.”
A War on Cops? The Effects of Ferguson on the Number of U.S. Police Officers Murdered in the Line of Duty (2017, background): “Culhane, Boman, and Schweitzer (2016), for example, demonstrated with a pre/post experimental design that citizens were less likely to view police shootings as justified in the post-Ferguson era.”
Sensitivity to the Ferguson Effect: The role of managerial organizational justice (2016, background): “It is also possible that, in response to the Ferguson- related controversy, officers have come to believe that citizens’ attitudes toward the police have worsened (see Culhane et al., 2016).”