2019-2020
Funder: Charles Koch Foundation, Criminal Justice &
Policing Reform Program
($110,000)
Principal Investigator: Eric L. Piza
Co-Principal Investigator: Victoria A. Sytsma
Project Overview
This project is an applied research partnership between the Newark Police Division and a multi-university research team. The research involves the systematic viewing, coding, and analysis of body-worn camera footage of police use of force events. The research aims to identify situational factors that influence police-officer decisions to use physical force during citizen encounters. More broadly, the project demonstrates the benefits of leveraging body-camera footage as a data source in observational police research.
Project Publications
- Conducting a Systematic Social Observation of Body-Camera Footage: Methodological and Practical Insights
- Scripting Police Escalation of Use of Force Through Conjunctive Analysis of Body-Worn Camera Footage: A Systematic Social Observational Pilot Study
- Measuring Procedural Justice Policy Adherence During Use of Force Events: The Body-Worn Camera as a Performance Monitoring Tool
- The Impact of Suspect Resistance, Informational Justice, and Interpersonal Justice on Time Until Police Use of Physical Force: A Survival Analysis
- Situational Factors and Police Use of Force Across Micro-Time Intervals: A Video Systematic Social Observation and Panel Regression Analysis
Eric L. Piza, Ph.D. 