The same cues that signal "army" and "conflict" to civilians may affect police officers themselves.
The deal also does not affect police officers, correction officers, teachers and firefighters.
I know she would write a clear and killer essay about what happened when the camera and the gun got welded together and about how adding lenses to guns increased the deadly aim of drones and how police body cameras and bystanders' video recordings affect police brutality.
The ruling, expected to affect police practices throughout the state, comes after repeated calls by civil rights advocates and legislators to abolish "consent searches," in which officers are free to search the cars of motorists they stop so long as the motorist agrees.
Although this is the largest and most diverse set of data on the topic of how body cameras affect police encounters, it is still a relatively small sample and there are many unquantifiable factors involved: How is force defined by a district, a city, a country?
Robert Muggah, in a July 9 op-ed in our pages, concurred, saying cop cams are especially beneficial to citizens because the technologies monitor officers and "affect police behavior".
Located about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, Rialto was the site of the first scientific study that attempted to gauge how the devices affect police behavior.
Neither announcement comes as much of a surprise, but both beg the question of how the investigations' findings will affect police-involved shootings going forward.
But violence by police officers whose job is to protect is corrosive, affect police culture, change both the officers who act violently and those who remain passive as they witness it.
