Objectives

This study tested camera perspective bias in evaluating a video-recorded police and citizen interaction.

Methods

Using professional actors, a simulated police-citizen traffic stop was recorded from three camera perspectives – police, citizen, and bystander. A sample of 830 participants recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk viewed one of the three randomly assigned videos before rating police behavior and legitimacy during the encounter.

Results

We found no evidence of the effects of camera perspective on how individuals evaluated a police traffic stop. Higher pre-test perceived police legitimacy was associated with more positive perceptions of police behavior and legitimacy during the encounter.

Conclusions

This study highlights the role of general perceptions of police legitimacy in evaluating a video-recorded police-citizen encounter. Possible explanations for the lack of camera perspective bias, as well as potential research uses of custom-recorded videos, are discussed.

中文翻译：

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警察与公民相遇视频中摄像机视角偏差的实验

目标

这项研究测试了评估录像中的警察和公民互动时摄像机视角的偏差。

方法

使用专业演员，从警察、公民和旁观者三个摄像机视角记录模拟的警察与公民交通停车。从亚马逊 Mechanical Turk 招募的 830 名参与者样本观看了三个随机分配的视频之一，然后对警察在遭遇过程中的行为和合法性进行评级。

结果

我们没有发现任何证据表明摄像机视角对个人如何评价警察交通拦截的影响。测试前对警察合法性的感知越高，与在遭遇过程中对警察行为和合法性的更积极看法相关。

结论

这项研究强调了警察合法性的一般看法在评估警察与公民的视频记录中的作用。讨论了缺乏摄像机视角偏差的可能解释，以及自定义录制视频的潜在研究用途。