The analysis was written by researchers at Northeastern University and the final, full report is set to be released in June with more information on police-citizen encounters, police proactivity, police lawfulness and police-community relations.

The analysis was conducted by Northeastern University researchers Jack McDevitt and Anthony Braga. In the pilot program, 100 cameras were placed on patrol officers in five police districts, and plainclothes officers in the Youth Violence Strike Force, which tends to gang matters. There were 281 participating officers in total, and they typically worked day shifts. […]

BPD worked with Northeastern University researchers on the report, which gives preliminary findings into the program. The impact of the body camera program, according to the report, was 12 fewer complaints filed against officers during a one-year period.

The analysis, written by Northeastern University researchers for BPD, found the reduction in citizen complaints “small but statistically significant” and the reduction in use of force reports not statistically significant.

The candidate, now headed to human trials for skin infections, adds “an important piece … to the puzzle of creating a perfect antibiotic,” says Kim Lewis, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston who was not involved in the work.

The report focused on two areas — citizen complaints and use of force. In the findings, compiled by researchers at Northeastern University, body-worn cameras “may generate small benefits to the civility of police-citizen civilian encounters.” According to the analysis, body-worn cameras reduced the number of citizen complaints by a small amount — 12 over 12 […]

Many a dissertation has been written on the meaning and impact of “cool” over the years. And to learn more about what, if any, role this powerfully ambiguous term has in the realm of credit cards, we posed the following questions to a panel of professors.

Preliminary findings from Boston’s study of police-worn body cameras point to a small benefit in reducing citizen complaints filed against officers, but no impact on police use of force against civilians. The mixed results of the study carried out by researchers at Northeastern University could prompt a fresh round of debate between advocates for body cameras […]

Nicole Boyson, a professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, said a sale could be coming. “ ‘Review strategic alternatives’ is code for sell yourself,” said Boyson, who specializes in activist investors. “The fact that Akamai took the step to hire a well-regarded investment bank to perform a strategic review is a positive […]

“Where the real challenge lies is that cities don’t control entirely their destinies. They rely on transportation, energy networks, communication networks that sprawl across the country, across borders,” says Stephen Flynn, director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University.

Social media connects us to the world, but two entrepreneurs from Northeastern University want to make sure it also keeps us in touch with our neighbors.

With the release of Steven Spielberg’s new movie, The Post, we look back at the battle between the Post and the Nixon Administration over the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study about the Vietnam War that revealed the government’s lies about U.S. involvement in the conflict. The movie focuses on Katherine Graham’s role as publisher […]