The Myopic Panopticon: The Social Consequences of Policing Through the Lens

Leman‐Langlois, Stéphane

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“…In addition to the staff dedicated to the CCTV Directed Patrol strategy, additional officers are needed to fulfill day-to-day functions. CCTV operations involve a host of activities, including reviewing past footage, monitoring cameras in response to citizen calls-for-service (as opposed to the proactive monitoring activities conducted in the experiment), burning disks at the request of outside parties, completing administrative reports, fielding telephone calls, and operating complimentary technologies, such as Gun Shot Detection Systems (Gill et al 2005;Keval and Sasse 2010;Leman-Langlois 2002;Piza et al 2014b). It is important to distinguish between such day-to-day tasks associated with the general CCTV system and the proactive monitoring practices of the CCTV Directed Patrol strategy, divergent activities dependent on the efforts of separate personnel.…”

Section: Measuring Costs Of a Cctv Systemmentioning

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The financial implications of merging proactive CCTV monitoring and directed police patrol: a cost–benefit analysis

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Objectives This study presents a cost-benefit analysis of an intervention pairing proactive CCTV monitoring with directed police patrol in Newark, NJ. A recent randomized control trial found that the strategy generated significant crime reductions in treatment areas relative to control areas. The current study focuses on the financial implications of the experimental strategy through a cost-benefit analysis. Methods The study begins by measuring the costs and benefits associated with the experimental strategy, the findings of which can inform agencies with existing CCTV infrastructure. Follow-up analyses measure the costs and benefits of the intervention for agencies absent existing CCTV infrastructure, meaning a CCTV system would have to be funded in addition to the intervention outputs. Alongside overall benefits, this study presents the tangible cost savings afforded to the Criminal Justice system as well as to each of the separate criminal justice (CJ) system components: Policing, Courts, and Corrections. Results We found the experimental strategy to be highly cost effective for agencies with existing CCTV infrastructure. However, when the cost of the CCTV system is

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The financial implications of merging proactive CCTV monitoring and directed police patrol: a cost–benefit analysis

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“…In addition to the large numbers of cameras typically present in CCTV systems, operators often have additional duties that can take them away from their proactive monitoring function. Tasks unrelated to surveillance, such as answering phones or manning front desks, can limit the proactive surveillance activity of an operator (Leman-Langlois, 2002). Even tasks related to other aspects of CCTV, such as burning footage onto disk, can impede upon active camera monitoring.…”

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Is the Punishment More Certain? An Analysis of CCTV Detections and Enforcement

2012

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The primary preventive mechanism of CCTV is considered to be deterrence. However, the relationship between CCTV and deterrence has been left implicit. Empirical research has yet to directly test whether CCTV increases the certainty of punishment, a key component of the deterrence doctrine. This study analyzes CCTV's relation to punishment certainty in Newark, NJ. Across eight crime categories, CCTV and 9-1-1 calls-for-service case processing times and enforcement rates are compared through Mann-Whitney U and Fisher's Exact tests, respectively, with a Holm-Bonferroni procedure correcting for multiple comparisons. ANOVA and negative binomial regression models further analyze the frequency of CCTV activity and the impact of various factors on Eric L. Piza is a member of the research faculty at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice Downloaded by [John Jay College of Criminal Justice] at 07:57 02 September 2014the (downward) trend of detections and enforcement. Findings suggest that CCTV increases punishment certainty on a case-by-case basis. However, a reduction of CCTV activity caused by specific "surveillance barriers" likely minimized the effect of the enhanced enforcement.

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“…This finding is consistent across various operational definitions of activity, such as crimes reported to police by CCTV operators , arrests in response to CCTV detections (Ditton and Short, 1999;Norris and Armstrong, 1999b;, evidence or intelligence captured by CCTV (Sarno et al, 1999;Waples and Gill, 2006;King et al, 2008), and proactive 'targeted surveillances' conducted by CCTV operators (Norris and Armstrong, 1999a;Lomell, 2004;Norris and McCahill, 2006). Researchers have provided a variety of explanations for the consistently low-levels of activity, including the often high camera to operator ratio (Keval and Sasse, 2010;, the lack of formal training of operators (Bulos and Sarno, 1996;Loveday and Gill, 2004), lack of motivation on the part of operators (Norris and McCahill, 2006), and the fact that operators are often tasked with responsibilities unrelated to the proactive monitoring of cameras (Leman-Langlois, 2002;. Regarding target selection, studies commonly find physical appearance, rather than behavior, to be a common factor leading operators to focus upon specific individuals or groups.…”

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CCTV as a tool for early police intervention: Preliminary lessons from nine case studies

Piza

Caplan

Kennedy

2017

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This study explores the prospect of utilizing CCTV as an early intervention mechanism to detect and disrupt street-level activity that can lead to violence. The analysis focuses on nine case studies in Newark, NJ, incorporating data from several sources, including video footage, computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system incident data, CAD event chronologies and face-to-face interviews with CCTV operators. The findings suggest that the benefits offered by CCTV, namely the instantaneous discovery and reporting of crime, may be rendered inconsequential by the process times associated with the differential-response policy of police dispatch. Potential methods by which police can more proactively utilize CCTV to prevent crime are discussed.

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The Myopic Panopticon: The Social Consequences of Policing Through the Lens

Cited by 20 publications

References 8 publications

The financial implications of merging proactive CCTV monitoring and directed police patrol: a cost–benefit analysis

The financial implications of merging proactive CCTV monitoring and directed police patrol: a cost–benefit analysis

Is the Punishment More Certain? An Analysis of CCTV Detections and Enforcement

CCTV as a tool for early police intervention: Preliminary lessons from nine case studies

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