All the Policing That’s Fit to Broadcast: Understanding How Videos of Police Action are Presented to the American Public

• In Event: Media and Crime

Brief Overview

In this paper, we use data from local and national news coverage, to explore what types of police-citizen encounters get covered and whether interactions that contain actual footage are covered differently than those which do not.

Authors

• Bryce Jensen Dietrich, University of Iowa

• Paul Franz Testa, Brown University