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Perceptions of Police Technology Use and Attitudes Towards the Police - A Representative Survey of the German Population

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2021

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Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.

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Many Germans perceive a brutalization of society, and state officials also report feeling under attack. At the same time, policing is criticised for becoming increasingly militarised and for having extended surveillance in the course of fighting terrorism. Advancements in HCI are used in the context of many of the issues that policing is facing. In this study, we conduct a representative survey of the German population to investigate personal experiences with and attitudes towards the police and information and communication technologies (ICT) used for policing. We find an overall positive image of the police and uncritical attitudes towards ICT used for general surveillance (body-worn cameras, video surveillance, face recognition) and slightly more critical attitudes towards personal surveillance (e.g. through communication data retention). The study indicates that perceptions differ according to experience of unfair treatment by the police, while other factors such as age and education have similar effects.

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Haunschild, Jasmin; Reuter, Christian (2021): Perceptions of Police Technology Use and Attitudes Towards the Police - A Representative Survey of the German Population. Mensch und Computer 2021 - Workshopband. DOI: 10.18420/muc2021-mci-ws08-255. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. MCI-WS08: Workshop Human-Machine Interaction in Safety-Critical Systems. Ingolstadt. 5.-8. September 2021

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