Mina Hasanzada

Title: Negotiating Trust: Brokered Dialogues on Police Use-of-Force and Body-Worn Cameras in Canadian Communities

Body-worn-cameras (BWC) are often presented as a technological solution to public concerns about police accountability, their success depends on the broader relational and social context that they operate within. Understanding how BWCs are interpreted and negotiated within communities requires moving beyond questions of effectiveness, to examine the social reactions that take shape when body-worn cameras are implemented. As such my study asks, what dynamics emerge when police officers and community members engage in a brokered dialogue about use-of-force encounters in the context of body-worn cameras?