This course aims to teach the basics of video necessary to obtain physics derived from video evidence and relate it to complex human injury investigations involving use of force incidents. By the end of this course, you will:
- Identify how Newton’s laws of motion related to Use of Force investigations can be derived from video.
- Demonstrate how video analysis is currently limited to distance and timing.
- Discuss how biomechanics including applied load can be obtained from video footage.
- Demonstrate how specific video analysis can prove threatening positions vs. non-threatening positions.
- Explore multiple case studies where deriving biomechanics from video was critical in understanding the violent event in both 2 and 3-dimensions.