The Everyday Respect project produces a variety of research products. In the sections below you can find:
Videos and public presentations
Media coverage of our work
Academic research papers
Resources for conducting multiperspective video annotation
Board of Police Commissioners
In August 2024 we presented results of our research into the perspectives of community and LAPD stakeholders. In December 2025 we presented a first round of descriptive results, based on hand-coded data from bodyworn camera recording of 1000 traffic stops.
In the recording of the 2024 BOPC meeting, Dr. Graham’s presentation begins at about the 1 hour, 32 minute mark. We will post the recording of the December 2025 presentation when it is available. The slide deck, including notes, from the 2025 presentation is available here: Everday Respect for BOPC December 2025 v12-15
Peer Reviewed Papers
CVAT-BWV: A Web-Based Video Annotation Platform for Police Body-Worn Video
Authors: Hejabi, Parsa, Akshay Kiran Padte, Preni Golazizian, Rajat Hebbar, Jackson Trager, Yiorgos Chochlakis, Aditya Kommineni, Ellie Graeden, Shrikanth Narayanan, Benjamin A.T. Graham, and Morteza Dehghani
Journal: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization.
Cost-Efficient Subjective Task Annotation and Modeling through Few-Shot Annotator Adaptation
Authors: Golazizian, Preni, Alireza Ziabari, Ali Omrani, Morteza Dehghani
Journal: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Aggregation Artifacts in Subjective Tasks Collapse Large Language Models’ Posteriors
Authors: Chochlakis, Georgios, Alexandros Potamianos, Kristina Lerman, and Shrikanth Narayanan
Journal: Accepted to the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Available online via Arxiv.
Communication in the Shadow of Power: What Possibilities Do New Technologies Hold?
Authors: Graham, Benjamin A.T., José Alcocer, Lauren Brown, Morteza Dehghani, Raquel Delerme,* Brittany Friedman, Ellie Graeden, Rajat Heber,* Jackson Trager,* Mayagüez Salinas, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Nicholas Weller, and Shrikanth Narayanan
Journal: Working paper. Available online via Arxiv.
Police as Policymakers: How Experiences with Policy Implementation Shape Policy Representation
Authors: Michael Sierra-Arévalo, José J. Alcocer, Lauren Brown; Raquel Delerme; Brittany Friedman; Benjamin A.T. Graham; Kyle Hulburd, Harry G. Muttram, Jackson Trager, and Nicholas Weller
Journal: Working paper. Available via SSRN.
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Political Control: Do Los Angeles Police Change their Behavior in Response to Policy Changes
Authors: Muttram, Harry, José Alcocer, Benjamin A.T. Graham, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, and Nicholas Weller
Journal: Working paper. Available via SSRN.
Open Science Resources
Our team has pioneered an approach to developing community-informed, multi-perspective AI tools to analyze BWC footage of police traffic stops. Our overall approach is described in this paper. The open-source software we developed for multi-perspective annotation is described in this paper. The materials we developed to train diverse annotators to assess objective and subjective elements of police traffic stops are posted via the Open Science Foundation.