France

The French team is working on four dimensions of this new police visibility:

  • how videos (of various kinds) are used by police oversight institutions (the General Inspectorate of the National Police, the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie, and the Defender of Rights);
  • how videos are used (by citizens, the media, and human rights organizations) to publicize and document certain police practices, particularly police violence;
  • how videos showing the use of force become the subject of commentary, debate, criticism, or support by ordinary citizens on social media;
  • how police institutions (both the police and the gendarmerie) use video footage for the internal training of their units.

Team France

Jacques de Maillard 

Mathieu Zagrodzki