Master of Justice Administration
November 2015
Engage. Enrich. Empower
Fayetteville PD Lieutenant Earns
MJA to add to Criminal Justice
Education Resume.
“Do NOT procrastinate. DO
By: Lisa Long
In the spring of 2009, Lieutenant Tracey Bass-Caine began her MJA journey. She was
working as a sergeant in the Fayetteville Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards. Bass-Caine wasn’t only focused on graduate work at the time, but she was also attending the North Carolina Justice Academy’s Management Development Program.
the work when it is given to
“I was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant while still in the program, and was transferred to
the Patrol Division, as a Watch Commander,” said Bass-Caine.
current with your assign-
you, as soon as it is given.
This will ensure that you stay
ments.”
Earning an Associate’s Degree in
Criminal Justice/Child Protective
Services from Fayetteville Technical Community College and a
Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Mount Olive College was
the educational and criminal justice
background that Bass-Caine sported when entering her MJA coursework. In December 2010, she graduated with her MJA .
“Obtaining my MJA has made me
very marketable and will open many
doors to me once I retire in four
years,” said Bass-Caine.
Not only has obtaining her MJA
made Bass-Caine more marketable, but she also attributes her time
in the program to meeting some
great people. Bass-Caine says that
was one of her favorite memories of
the program; meeting the dedicated
and professional men and women
in the criminal justice field.
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Lieutenant Tracey Bass-Caine, Fayetteville Police Department
- Tracey Bass-Caine
In This Issue
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Fayetteville PD Lieutenant earns MJA
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USF Body Camera
Study
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Veteran’s Day Deals
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Methodist University
Activities
University of South Florida
study: body cameras help police
do their jobs better
By Michael Majchrowicz, Times Staff Writer
Methodist University Activities
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November 6
TAMPA — Police officers may be better at their jobs when the public is watching.
That's what University of South Florida researchers recently concluded after spending a
year studying Orlando Police Department officers who wore body cameras — and recorded their interactions with the public — versus officers who did not.
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In that year, there was a 65 percent drop in complaints against officers who wore the
cameras, according to the study, and a 53 percent reduction in incidents that required
those officers to use force — also known as "response to resistance" incidents.
"Your perceived likelihood of wearing this camera makes you behave more by the
book," said USF criminology professor Wesley Jennings. "Everybody, officers included,
tend to toe the line a little better when they know they're being videotaped."
The study started in March 2014 when 46 officers were given body cameras to wear on
duty. Researchers also studied 43 officers who didn't get cameras. The study's conclusions were based on police records, officer surveys and interviews with both sets of the
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Even though the study is over, all of the officers who wore body cameras decided to
keep using them, said police spokeswoman Michelle Guido. Now their fellow officers
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"We have a waiting list," Guido said. "Because they've heard their colleagues talk about
how they've come in handy. People are always asking about it."
She said the Orlando Police Department also believes that body cameras will weed out
illegitimate complaints so the agency can focus on addressing serious complaints
against officers.
Police commanders were so pleased with the experiment that they've decided to equip
the entire Orlando force with body cameras. In September, the department was awarded $497,480 from the U.S. Department of Justice to help buy 450 body cameras over
the next three years.
Police accountability has become a national issue since USF started its Orlando study.
But that's not what spurred the study. Researchers said they launched the study to get
a better idea of how these officers — and citizens — act when they know everyone is
watching.
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Michelle Richardson, director of public policy for the American Civil Liberties Union of
Florida, said the study's findings were encouraging.
"It has a calming effect on everyone involved when they realize their behavior is being
memorialized for all to see," she said.
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Bass-Caine, continued
Bass-Caine also has memories of her Capstone project and some tactics that she used to make it through that final stage of the
program.
“(My Capstone was entitled) ‘Gratuities, the Gateway to Police Corruption.’ It’s important to choose a topic that you’re interested
in, a topic that you want to know its outcome,” Bass-Caine advises.
Bass-Caine’s research was very useful in some of the positions that she’s held during her 25+ years with the Fayetteville Police
Department, acting as a Fraud Sergeant, the Lieutenant of Special Investigations, being in charge of the Homicide Unit, Cyber
Crimes, Special Victims Unit and the Fayetteville Family Justice Center. She was also the first person to hold the position of
Executive Office to the Chief of Police at Fayetteville Police Department.
Bass-Caine’s success at Fayetteville Police Department is paralleled in her personal life as well. She gave birth to her daughter
at the age of 16. After giving birth, Bass-Caine was paralyzed from the waist down for four months.
“I had to learn to walk again,” Bass-Caine recalls.
She went on to graduate from high school as the Salutatorian of her class. Bass-Caine is a former model as well as a selfproclaimed “tom-boy” who loves to fish!! She has two grandchildren, Logan and Addison.
When asked what one thing was that most people don’t know about her, Bass-Caine proclaims, “I can NEVER just state ONE
thing about myself, when there’s SOOO much to tell!!”
Any last words of encouragement?
“Do NOT procrastinate. Do the work when it is given, as soon as it is given. This will ensure that you stay current with your
assignments,” Bass-Caine states.
Currently, Lieutenant Bass-Caine works as the Director of Training and Education Center/Recruiting at the Fayetteville Police
Department.
“You wouldn’t have
won if we’d beaten
you.”
-Yogi
Lieutenant Tracey Bass-Caine, poses with her grandbaby
Berra
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Body Cameras, continued
At first, Jennings said, officers were skeptical that wearing body cameras would help them do their jobs better or have any kind of
impact at all.
Eventually, whether officers realized it or not, body cameras made them more aware of their actions and those they interacted
with, the USF professor said.
statement.
By the end of the study, about 75 percent of the Orlando police officers who wore the cameras said they should be adopted by
the rest of the agency. That's exactly what the department plans to do.
"(The cameras) will also improve accountability and transparency, protect our officers from false complaints, and provide valuable evidence for prosecutors," Orlando police Chief John Mina said in a
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