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Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, June 2017
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Title
Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, June 2017
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1702413114
Pubmed ID
Authors

Rob Voigt, Nicholas P Camp, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, William L Hamilton, Rebecca C Hetey, Camilla M Griffiths, David Jurgens, Dan Jurafsky, Jennifer L Eberhardt

Abstract

Using footage from body-worn cameras, we analyze the respectfulness of police officer language toward white and black community members during routine traffic stops. We develop computational linguistic methods that extract levels of respect automatically from transcripts, informed by a thin-slicing study of participant ratings of officer utterances. We find that officers speak with consistently less respect toward black versus white community members, even after controlling for the race of the officer, the severity of the infraction, the location of the stop, and the outcome of the stop. Such disparities in common, everyday interactions between police and the communities they serve have important implications for procedural justice and the building of police-community trust.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 390 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 106 27%
Student > Master 47 12%
Researcher 39 10%
Student > Bachelor 37 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 31 8%
Other 64 16%
Unknown 67 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 87 22%
Psychology 77 20%
Computer Science 39 10%
Linguistics 20 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 4%
Other 71 18%
Unknown 82 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1342. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 March 2024.
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#9,673
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#303
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#149
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Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#7
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