Online Library on Best Police Practices is a database of internet resources bearing on police practices that have met the test of time and could serve as a template for Nevada police reform. The data repository includes a wide range of resources such as U.S. Department of Justice Guidelines on Civilian Oversight Process, FBI Report on White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement and Congressional response to this report, the U.S. House Committee Hearings on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability, The Washington Post Database on Racial Disparities in Fatal Police Shooting, Ferguson Civilian Review Task Force and Baltimore Community Oversight Task Force Recommendations. Users interested in scholarly work will find a selection of latest law review and social science articles on Cost of hiding police disciplinary records from the public, Challenges facing municipalities implementing civilian police reform, Provisions for reporting use of deadly force, Issues related to police union contracts, American Sociological Association's data repository on police abuse, the ASA special issue on race, justice and police violence. Below you will find resources on best police practices and reform initiatives organized by categories.
Body Camera and Police Technologies
J. Wright, II and A. Headley. Can Technology Work for Policing? Citizen Perceptions of Police-Body Worn Cameras. 51 The American Review of Public Administration (2020).
L. Ness. Body Cameras May Not Be the Easy Answer Everyone Was Looking For. Stateline. January 14 (2020).
T. Jackman. Axon Rolls Out the Next Level of Police Technology: Live-streaming Body Cameras. The Washington Post. Feb. 19 (2020).
C. Norwood. Body Cameras Are Seen as Key to Police Reform. But do they increase accountability? PBS (2020).
J. Brown. How Has the Implementation of Body Worn Cameras Affected Law Enforcement in Texas?. 1 Certified Public Manager® Applied Research (2020).
M. Reynolds. How Does Technology Fit Into Calls for Police Reform? ABA Journal (2020).
A. Fitch. Amazon Suspends Police Use of Its Facial-Recognition Technology. The Wall Street Journal. June 10 (2020).
S. Cope and A. Schwartz. You Have a First Amendment Right to Record the Police. Electronic Frontier Foundation. June 8 (2020).
J. Bellin and S. Pemberton. Policing the Admissibility of Body Camera Evidence. 87 Fordham L. Rev. (2019).
A. Schwartz. No Police Body Cams Without Strict Safeguards. Electronic Frontier Foundation. November 2 (2020).
E. Zuckerman. Why Filming Police Violence Has Done Nothing to Stop It. MIT Technology Review May 31 (2020).
B. Heubl. Investigation into Body Cameras Finds Nagging Challenges for UK Police. Engineering & Technology. Mar. 17 (2020).
Police Body Cameras: Top 3 Pros and Cons. ProCon.Org. Aug. 14 (2020).
M. Zamoff. Assessing the Impact of Police Body Camera Evidence on the Litigation of Excessive Force Cases. 54 Ga. L. Rev. (2019-2020).
B. Chapman. Body-Worn Cameras: What the Evidence Tells Us. 280 National Institute of Justice (2019).
E. St. Louis et al. Police Use of Body-Worn Cameras: Challenges of Visibility, Procedural Justice, and Legitimacy. 17 Surveillance & Society (2019).
M. Rossler. The Impact of Police Technology Adoption on Social Control, Police Accountability, and Police Legitimacy. Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy (2019).
J. Murphey. Is it recording? – racial bias, police accountability, and the body-worn camera activation policies of the ten largest metropolitan police departments in the USA. 9 Colum. J. Race & L. (2019).
Murray Lee et al. "Being held to account: Detainees' perceptions of police body-worn cameras. 52 Aust. N. Z. J. Criminol. (2019).
A. Ravishankar et al. A Randomized Control Trial Evaluating the Effects of Police Body-worn Cameras. 116 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019).
A. Diaz. New York City Police Department Surveillance Technology. Brennan Center for Justice. October 19 (2019).
Looking beyond the Lens: The Socio-Technical Implications of Body-Worn Cameras. 12 Special Issue of Policing (2018).
J. McClain. Can Law Enforcement Be Both Tech-Driven and Just? NYU Law's Policing Project. (2019).
C. Lum et al. Research on Body‐worn Cameras. What We Know, What We Need to Know. Criminology and Public Policy (2019).
An Overview of Police Technology: Adoption and Efficacy. Center for Justice Research and Evaluation (2019).
M. Emamian et al. Regulating Police Body-Worn Cameras. The Regulatory Review (2019).
Cost and Benefits of Body-Worn Camera Deployments. Police Executive Research Forum (2018).
J. Murphy. Chilling: The Constitutional Implications of BodyWorn Cameras and Facial Recognition Technology at Public Protests. 75 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. (2018).
B. Clayton Newell. Collateral Visibility: A Socio-Legal Study of Police Body Camera Adoption, Privacy, and Public Disclosure in Washington State. 92 Indiana L. J. (2017).
Body-worn cameras for police accountability: Opportunities and risks. Fanny Coudert, Denis Butin, and Daniel Le Métayerc. Computer Law & Security Review. (2015).
J. Smykla et al. Police body-worn cameras: Perceptions of law enforcement leadership. 41 American Journal of Criminal Justice (2016).
K. Maury. Police Body-Worn Camera Policy: Balancing the Tension Between Privacy and Public Access in State Law. 92 Notre Dame L. Rev. (2016).
A Guide to Protecting Communities and Preserving Civil Liberties. The Constitution Project (2016).
C. Lum et al. Existing and Ongoing Body Worn Camera Research: Knowledge Gaps and Opportunities. Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason University (2015).
M. Blitz. Police Body-Worn Cameras: Evidentiary Benefits and Privacy Threats. American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. May (2015).
Implementing a Body-Worn Camera Program. Recommendations and Lessons Learned. COPS U.S. Department of Justice (2014).
The Rise of Police Body Cameras. Sociology Lens. MAY 9 (2014).
E. Belcher. NYPD - Historical and Current Research: Police Body Cameras/Video.