SPARQ’s Policing Work Featured in Scientific American
Check out Scientific American’s new article! It highlights the past decade of SPARQ’s pioneering work analyzing police body-camera footage at scale, led by Co-director Eberhardt with contributions from our collaborators in computer science, linguistics, and psychology.
Police body-worn camera footage is often viewed solely as evidence, which undermines its value to be transformed into large-scale data to track differences in policing behavior over time. By systematically analyzing the footage, researchers and practitioners will be able to better understand police-community interactions and police behavior. They will also be able to have a better understanding of what kinds of training actually translate into real change.
As Faculty Affiliate Nick Camp says, “We are getting closer to departments being able to use these tools and not just having it be an academic exercise.”
