Cynthia Lum

TL;DR: Two principles should form the bedrock for effective policing in a democratic society: crime averted, not arrests made, should be the primary metric for judging police effectiveness and citizens' views about the police and their tactics for preventing crime and disorder matter independently of police effectiveness as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors found that BWCs do not seem to affect other police and citizen behaviors in a consistent manner, including self-initiated activities or arrest behaviors, dispatched calls for service, or assaults and resistance against police officers, but it is unclear whether this finding signals an improvement in the quality of police-citizen interactions or a change in reporting.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine common practices of reporting statistically nonsignificant findings in criminal justice evaluation studies and find that criminal justice evaluators often make formal errors in the reporting of statistically non-significant results.

TL;DR: In this article, technology has become a major source of expenditure and innovation in law enforcement and is assumed to hold great potential for enhancing police work. But does technology achieve these expectation?

TL;DR: Despite the general theoretical support for the value and use of randomized controlled experiments in determining "what works" in criminal justice interventions, they are infrequently used in practice as mentioned in this paper, due to the difficulty and ethical challenges of conducting experiments.