Jackson Dylan B, Fix Rebecca L, Testa Alexander, Webb Lindsey, Mendelson Tamar
Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Soc Sci Med. 2025 May;373:118001. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118001. Epub 2025 Mar 24.
Recording the police is a high-stakes racial justice issue for minoritized youth and communities. No studies to date have explored youths' efforts to record police and the mental health impacts of these experiences for youth.
This study examined the features and mental health repercussions of in-person stops where youth attempted to record police.
Data come from the Survey of Police-Adolescent Contact Experiences (SPACE), a cross-sectional survey of a community sample of Black youth ages 12-21 in Baltimore City, Maryland (n = 345), administered from August 2022 to July 2023.
Youth commonly attempted to record police during direct stops (33.63%) and in-person witnessed stops (39.18%). Across both types of stops, youths' attempts to record police were strongly associated with all forms of officer intrusion. Recording the police was also associated with significantly elevated police-initiated post-traumatic stress symptoms (PI-PTSS), even when adjusting for officer intrusion and other covariates. Recording the police was most relevant to PI-PTSS for stops with little to no officer intrusion.
In addition to systemic change that eliminates inequities in police violence against minoritized youth and communities, trauma-informed supports may be needed for youth who attempt to record police stops - even when stops feature little to no officer intrusion.
对少数族裔青年和社区而言，拍摄警察是一个关乎重大种族正义的问题。迄今为止，尚无研究探讨过青年拍摄警察的行为以及这些经历对青年心理健康的影响。
本研究调查了青年试图拍摄警察的现场拦截事件的特征及其对心理健康的影响。
数据来自警察与青少年接触经历调查（SPACE），这是一项对马里兰州巴尔的摩市12至21岁黑人青年社区样本（n = 345）的横断面调查，于2022年8月至2023年7月进行。
青年在直接拦截（33.63%）和现场目睹拦截（39.18%）过程中经常试图拍摄警察。在这两种拦截类型中，青年拍摄警察的行为都与各种形式的警察侵犯行为密切相关。即使在对警察侵犯行为和其他协变量进行调整后，拍摄警察也与警察引发的创伤后应激症状（PI-PTSS）显著增加有关。对于几乎没有警察侵犯行为的拦截，拍摄警察与PI-PTSS最为相关。
除了进行系统性变革以消除警察对少数族裔青年和社区暴力行为中的不平等现象外，对于试图拍摄警察拦截过程的青年，可能还需要提供创伤知情支持——即使拦截过程中几乎没有警察侵犯行为。
