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🗓️ 17 November 2016
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.7 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Erica Barris. Got a minute? |
0:42.3 | The last few years have seen numerous widely publicized incidents of civilians, |
0:47.5 | black men in particular being killed by police. |
0:50.3 | In response, many officers are now required to wear body cameras. |
0:54.3 | The theory is that technology will lessen the likelihood of an officer using unnecessary force to diffuse a situation. |
1:01.3 | Now, research finds that body cameras do indeed appear to keep encounters between police and civilians from intensifying to the point where a civilian files a complaint, in a few |
1:11.7 | jurisdictions anyway. The study is in the journal Criminal Justice and Behavior. Researchers |
1:17.5 | collected data from seven police departments in the U.K. and the U.S. that serve a total population |
1:23.0 | of 2 million people. The data represented over 1.4 million hours logged by nearly 2,000 |
1:29.3 | police officers in 2014 and 2015. Officers were randomly assigned to either wear or not wear |
1:35.7 | body cameras week by week. When the police wore the cameras, they were required to have them on |
1:40.9 | at all times. The year before the study, a total of 1,539 complaints were |
1:46.3 | filed against officers at the seven sites. But during the course of the body camera experiment, |
1:51.4 | a total of just 113 complaints were filed, a reduction of 93%. Six of the seven sites saw |
1:58.4 | complaint reductions of at least 88%. |
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