Hey everyone, it's Caitlin Luna, host of Speaking of Psychology.

This episode was recorded during APA's Technology, Mind, and Society Conference, held in October

2019 in Washington, D.C. I was away on maternity leave during that time, so my colleague Kim Mills was a guest host.

We hope you like this episode.

Hello and welcome to Speaking of Psychology, a bi-weekly podcast from the American Psychological

Association that looks at the connections between psychological science and everyday life.

I'm your host, Kim Mills, and I'm coming to you from APA's annual Technology, Mind, and Society

Conference in Washington, D.C. That's a cross-disciplinary meeting that is examining

psychology's role in advancing everything from virtual reality to artificial intelligence

to the Internet of Things. Cameras are playing a greater and greater role in law enforcement,

whether we're talking about cameras placed on dashboards and police cruisers or cameras that officers wear as part of their

uniforms. But how effective are cameras in police encounters? What do they tell us about police

citizen interactions? And do cameras ever lie? Our guest today is Dr. Nick Camp, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, where

he received his PhD after completing his BA at Columbia University.

His primary research focus examines racial disparities in the everyday encounters between police

officers and citizens.

To understand the causes and consequences of

these inequities, he draws on a range of methods, from computational studies of officers'

body-worn camera footage to experiments in community and lab settings to analyses of traffic stop

data. Dr. Camp, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. So let me start by asking you,

how common are cameras in police work today? Is every police force in America using them or

considering using them? So a recent survey shows that almost every police department in the country

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