This session will explore two compelling studies that shed light on the intricacies of human performance elements in use-of-force scenarios.
“Kinematic Analysis of Firearms Assaults on Police Officers” An analysis of assault motions and times when officers are attacked with a handgun. Action was captured with accelerometers and gyroscopes accurate to thousands of a second. This study on the speed of assaults helps set a metric for training and investigation. (attendees will be given access to the journal article)
“The Camera Lens and the Human Eye: Documented Performance Differences during a Critical Incident.” A study comparing the eye scan of officers with action captured by their body cameras. X/y coordinates of body cameras were analyzed as compared to the x/y coordinates of an officer’s eye scan. The officers were involved in a very realistic scenario lasting 15 minutes with an evolving escalation of threat. Pulse levels averaged 165 beats per minute. Many officers were up to 180bpm. Over 75 percent of the times officers used deadly force the information available to their eyes and used by them to make a judgement to shoot was not recorded by the body camera.
