{"id":26126,"date":"2025-12-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/?p=26126"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:14:35","slug":"body-cam-traffic-stop-analysis-to-train-ai-improve-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/body-cam-traffic-stop-analysis-to-train-ai-improve-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"How researchers are learning what makes police stops feel respectful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/traffic-stop-everyday-respect-top-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/traffic-stop-everyday-respect-top-1920x1080.jpg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/traffic-stop-everyday-respect-top-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/traffic-stop-everyday-respect-top-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"View of a patrol car in the side review mirror of a car\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Artificial intelligence analysis of traffic stops could make interactions between law enforcement and the public more respectful and safer. 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<p><strong>What makes a police stop feel respectful? <\/strong>To find out, researchers from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences are leading a multi-university team that has analyzed body camera footage from 1,000 Los Angeles traffic stops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>Trust between police and the communities they serve hinges on day-to-day encounters \u2014 especially traffic stops, one of the most common.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yet, little is known about what actually happens during those stops or what makes them feel respectful to the people involved.<\/li>\n<li>AI could help, but only if it\u2019s trained on what respect looks like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>By using body camera footage <\/strong>to examine these encounters in detail, researchers with the <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/everydayrespect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everyday Respect Project<\/a> aim to identify patterns that foster trust and those that erode it. Their findings will help inform AI tools that will eventually scale that work to many thousands of interactions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Everyday Respect Project process:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Community-driven definitions of respect:<\/strong> Surveys, interviews and focus groups help define what \u201cgood\u201d communication looks like from multiple stakeholder perspectives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Training AI with diverse human input:<\/strong> A team of 43 annotators \u2014 including community members and retired officers \u2014 rate bodycam footage to train machine learning tools.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scaling up:<\/strong> These AI models will eventually analyze footage from roughly 30,000 traffic stops by L.A. Police Department officers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Understanding escalation and de-escalation:<\/strong> Researchers will identify what drives respectful communication and what causes interactions to break down.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transparency and impact:<\/strong> The tools and findings will be shared publicly to support improvements in traffic stop practices nationwide.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>How the study protects privacy: <\/strong>Bodycam footage was analyzed under strict privacy protocols; neither officers nor drivers are identified.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The goal is to understand how tone, language and behavior shape perceptions of respect \u2014 and to support practices that build mutual trust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What they\u2019re saying: <\/strong>\u201cBody camera footage gives us a rare window into everyday interactions that shape public trust in policing,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/benjamin-graham\/\">Ben Graham<\/a>, coordinating principal investigator of the Everyday Respect Project and associate professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/poir\/\">international relations<\/a> at USC Dornsife.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe want to learn what respect looks and sounds like and how it can be encouraged.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Initial findings,<\/strong> which were recently presented to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lacity.gov\/directory\/police-commissioners-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners<\/a>, are available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/everydayrespect\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2025\/12\/Everday-Respect-for-BOPC-December-2025-v12-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everyday Respect Project Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next: <\/strong>The team is refining tools that can teach AI to recognize respectful communication \u2014 along with a wide variety of other stop features \u2014 and evaluate some 30,000 videos of real-world traffic stops.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They hope the model can help cities nationwide evaluate \u2014 and improve \u2014 everyday policing practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s behind it: <\/strong>In addition to USC Dornsife, the project brings together researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/priceschool.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Sol Price School of Public Policy<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isi.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Information Sciences Institute<\/a>; Georgetown University Massive Data Institute; University of Texas at Austin; and University of California, Riverside.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s funding it: <\/strong>Support for the project comes from the National Science Foundation, Arnold Ventures, the Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative, Google (Award for Inclusion Research), and a USC Zumberge Interdisciplinary Research Grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n        \n  \n    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