RT Article
T1 Police accounts of critical incidents: a descriptive and empirical assessment
JF Journal of crime and justice
VO 47
IS 1
SP 95
OP 111
A1 Uchida, Craig
A2 McCluskey, John 1944-
A2 Kringen, Jonathan
A2 Kringen, Anne
A2 Kato, Sean
A2 Melendez, Heleana
A2 Schmitz, Jennifer
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1879931451
AB Data from body-worn cameras (BWCs) have emerged as a new approach to measuring police activity. These data, in the form of video footage, represent a new method to systematically examine how critical incidents involving police unfold. Recently, law enforcement agencies have begun documenting and releasing elements of video and other data to offer the public their accounts of critical incidents involving police-citizen encounters. These include officer-involved shootings, use of force, and police activity involving protests and demonstrations. The current research analyzes these critical incidents in three interrelated ways: First, we describe the extent to which BWC footage is used in the critical incident accounts. Second, we assess the quality of the audio and video within the BWC footage that is released. Third, we closely code and analyze the data for patterns of police use of force and citizen resistance within the context of extant theories of use of force. The implications for policy and research, and the utility and limitations of this method for future research are considered.
K1 video footage
K1 video data analysis
K1 Body-worn cameras
K1 Critical incident
DO 10.1080/0735648X.2022.2080100