The Impact of Attentional Load on Policing

Why do officers’ accounts of use of force incidents sometimes not match video evidence? Why do two officers provide conflicting accounts of the same OIS? These discrepancies are often attributed to officer deception or collusion, when in fact they are much more likely to be the effects of the way humans perceive and recall stressful incidents.

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