I wore a bodycam (Body Worm Video - BWV) and they do have an impact (mostly positive, but occasionally negative), as @C J Snarzell said. I didn’t often have to activate mine, but even on it’s pretty-record’ mode, peoples’ general attitude changed (there was always a light flashing whether it was recording or not). There are some people who just don’t care, but more fool them really because the evidence was very clear when we needed to use it in courtI wonder what the impact of equipping the members of staff with body cams has had on reducing the grief given
From a private company point of view, we had strict guidance of when we were permitted to activate BWV and it was strictly when somebody was becoming aggressive/if there was an element of ASB or if there was other benefit to capturing evidence (they wouldn’t budge on not allowing us to record fare evaders...).
Obviously there were some staff opposed to wearing BWV...usually those who thought the management would use them to spy on staff...