Police departments in the United States are rapidly adopting body-worn cameras (BWCs). To date, no study has investigated the effects of BWCs on police officers themselves, despite evidence suggesting negative effects of electronic performance monitoring on employee well-being. Police officers already experience higher levels of burnout than other professions. We hypothesize that the intense surveillance of BWCs will manifest in how police officers perceive the organizational support of their departments and will increase burnout. We test these hypotheses using data from patrol officers (n = 271) and structural equation modeling. We find BWCs increase police officer burnout, and this effect is statistically different from zero. We also find that BWCs decrease officers’ perceived organizational support, which mediates the relationship between BWCs and burnout. Greater perceived organizational support can blunt the negative effects of BWCs. Our study is the first to situate effects on officers at the center of BWC literature.

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警察佩戴的摄像头：对人员倦怠和感知的组织支持的影响

美国的警察部门正在迅速采用随身摄像机（BWC）。迄今为止，尽管有证据表明电子绩效监控对员工的健康产生了负面影响，但至今尚无研究调查《生物武器公约》对警察本身的影响。警官的倦怠程度已经比其他行业更高。我们假设对BWC的严格监视将体现在警官如何看待其部门的组织支持并将增加倦怠感。我们使用巡逻人员的数据（n = 271）和结构方程模型来检验这些假设。我们发现BWC会增加警员的倦怠程度，而这种影响在统计上不同于零。我们还发现，生物武器公约减少了军官对组织的支持，介导了BWC与倦怠之间的关系。更大的组织支持感可能会削弱BWC的负面影响。我们的研究是第一个将影响置于BWC文学中心的官员。