Closeup of a police body camera.

Complex Social Interaction Lab

Police footage analysis done right so you can improve your department

The CSI Lab knows it can be difficult to utilize bodycam footage to better your agency.

We’ll make this a simple process for you because the lab can:

Use software to analyze police footage. Give results and guidance to better police departments. Validate police reports. Improve officer decision making. Work with companies to research police-community interactions. Give WSU students hands-on experience in Complex Social Interactions.

Are you a student interested in working in the CSI Lab? Click on the application above.

15,000 hours of footage analyzed. 100+ solutions for annotating footage. 100+ undergrads worked with. 10+ years of experience. 20+ research presentations. 5+ police agencies worked with.

What To Do

Contact the Lab

To contact the lab, fill out the Contact Form and a staff member will respond to your communication promptly.

Meet with the Lab

Meeting enables the CSI Lab to understand your inquiry and fully evaluate what we can do to help and to discuss a plan moving forward.

Get what you need

Cooperate with CSI Lab by trusting the team while they work their hardest to provide the best solutions.

Testimonials

“As a psychology and CJ major, this was an experience that allowed me to see how important it is to study interactions and the challenges that come from trying to study interactions”.

Previous Student

“This research is inherently interdisciplinary and the data complex. I have been impressed by the willingness of the lab to explore new ideas with the data.”

Previous Collaborator

“We decided to work with the CSI lab to better understand how our officers are interacting with members of the community”.

Chief of Police

“As a student pursuing a career in law enforcement, my experience in the lab gave me a glimpse into the variety of contacts officers make. It was like doing dozens of ride-a-longs”.

Previous Student

“Our collaboration is going to allow for us to understand if our training is being applied, and ultimately if that training is working”.

Risk Management Bureau

“As a smaller agency, it is often challenging to use our BWC footage. Working with the CSI Lab, we are making our BWC work to improve how we interact with the community.”.

Police Agency
Work featured by: National Police Foundation, Axon, KOMO News, King 5, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.