Police brutality is a huge problem in America today, and few steps are being taken to prevent this injustice. One way of eliminating some of this from society is having police officers wear manually activated cameras on their bodies to record any interactions with civilians. Recently, multiple cases revolving around police brutality including two extremely controversial cases from 2014 where two black men (Eric Garner and Michael Brown) were killed by white officers who later were not charged. The news and multiple social media websites took notice of these cases and it became a widespread public issue. A way to solve this problem is to have law enforcement wear these cameras so that the video recordings can be used to resolve many disputes revolving around necessary force. Body cameras…
Police officers argue that body cameras can deal with privacy issues. Privacy won’t become an issue if some of the police officers actually did their job right. Many of the police departments have been denying to wear body cameras because cameras may prevent people from coming forward as credible witnesses to help assist with investigations, due to fear of public exposure and the fear of someone coming after them to kill them. Technological issues related to the cameras may prevent proper functioning at times and the cops are not able to fix them because they don’t know much about technology. This could be due to a dead battery, damaged components, obstructed lens, and other problems. This could result in personnel missing important witness statements or crucial behavior by officers or citizens. The equipment is expensive as well. Some police departments don’t have the money to buy expensive cameras. The cameras the cops need have to have a lot of storage in them. Plus, cameras need to have long-term batteries so that it won’t die out while on duty. Yes,…
These body cameras will be keeping the officers reliable for what all they do near and to the citizens. The cameras that wants to be issued to the officers might not be avoiding a person’s privacy but at times may be shut off will be helpful for court cases and finding criminal justice caused by the citizens or officers. Using the body cameras on officers may cost the United States more money than usual for police officers but will help greatly for criminal justice. There for the officer body camera will help us greatly improve police behavior towards certain crimes and…
Police body cameras have been a topic of controversy in the last year, one of the main ramifications this topic has is that body cameras will provide more evidence in cases where white police officers kill black civilians. There has been a lot of cases in which the only witness left is the officer and there’s no evidence to prove him wrong. Police body cameras should be a part of every police department uniform in the United States.…
(https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/police_body-mounted_cameras.pdf) Cameras have the potential to be a win-win, helping protect the public against police misconduct, and at the same time helping protect police against false accusations of abuse.…
Should All Police Officers Wear Body Cameras? For years now, the United States have argued over whether or not police officers should wear body cameras. Recent studies show that more and more Americans believe that all police officers should wear body cameras. Many people have come out in support of this new controversial issue. For one thing, it would prove true evidence about any hard making decisions. Also, police officers wearing body cameras are less likely to use violence. Finally, it can provide safety for all on duty police officers.…
There have been many complaints about if body cameras on police officers will work or not. There are two people that have different opinions that other people that think body cameras will stop police brutality against police officers. William N. Grigg, and Joshua Krause these people think body cameras on police officers will not work, and will not stop or decrease the violence from police officers. Grigg’s argument is Their arguments are that the officers from the SDPD forgot to turn on their body cameras while on duty. A crime that happened in April, Officer Neal Browder fatally shot a 31-year-old man named Fridoon Zalbeg Rawshannehad, who had been suspected of carrying a knife. After the shooting, no weapon was found, although Rawshannehad was carrying what has been described as “a shiny looking object.”(San Diego Cops…
Police body cameras make it more difficult for police officers, and they will not do their job as well wearing the body cameras. Some people might believe that they actually improve how the police officers work, and that it is fair for the victims. However they do not think much about the police officers, but they only mainly focus on the victims. Justin Ready and Jacob Young, two Arizona School of Criminology assistant professors, conducted an experiment that states key findings like, “officers who did not wear body cameras conducted more ‘Stop-and-frisks’ and made more arrests than officers who wore the video cameras. Officers who did not wear cameras performed 9.8% more stop-and-frisks and made 6.9% more arrests” (Kelsh). With that statement we should not have police body cameras because they are not helping police out in any way.…
Police Body Cameras: The public’s concern for privacy The future of police work has change over the past ten years. An Officer’s word was good enough but like all things in life there comes a change. The change that we are seeing in law enforcement currently is the use of body worn cameras. The bigger agencies have had in car cameras for a long time but recently with newer technology officers are now being equipped with body worn cameras. The Executive Director of the Michigan Sheriff’s Association states ‘’ I think it’s a natural evolution from the dash cam,” and “This way, you see what the officer experiences, right or wrong”. (Wawrow p.1 2014) The debate on body worn cameras came mostly after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. However…
body cameras has impacted society and law enforcement over the past few years. These cameras…
In light of recent events, tensions amongst American communities and police officers have heightened due to the shootings of unarmed civilians and the alleged use of excessive force. These events have brought the integrity of police officers into question raising the question onto whether or not police officers should wear body cameras. This would serve to improve public relations with the local communities and provide a new source of indisputable hard evidence. Unfortunately, everything also comes with its disadvantages and while the benefits of body cameras do outweigh the negatives on paper, they may still not be enough to result in wide scale implementation. Such disadvantages include cost, as the cost of a single body camera ranges from $400 to $700 (Taser International Inc.) The reliability of these cameras may also be called into question as technological bugs are inevitable. According to research conducted by PERF and the COPS office, officers should be required to activate their cameras when responding to calls meaning that they are turned off while on duty. This may allow a police officer to tamper with evidence or to manipulate the cameras as they are in total control. Body cameras may be a potential solution for a growing problem, and while there seem to be an abundance of benefits, many drawbacks do also question the viability of such a project.…
Are Police Body Cameras Necessary? “How one tragedy affects so many others.”(Kenneth Eade) The many accusations of unnecessary police brutality is one of the primary causes of the introduction of police body cameras. The government was trying to find a solution to the slowly growing tension between the police and the common people. There are many different views on if these cameras are affective and necessary to keep around.…
Should police officers wear body cameras? A 2013 University of Cambridge study found that when officers wear body cameras, both police and respondents are less likely to use violence. This study indicated a drop in the use of force by more than fifty percent. Body cameras will make the streets safer for both officers and the general public. Continuously wearing the camera will hold the officer accountable for his/her behavior. Also, body cameras can prevent cases like the Ferguson and Baltimore case, where the public was not for sure what had happened. In saying this, police officers should be made to wear body cameras.…
Body Cameras Are The New Eyes Although some say police body cameras may cause an increasingly large amount of money in the country's spending, really paying the price now will help a lot more than paying in the future because, this will prevent any disputes in incidents that happen in this country, and in the end there will be fewer lawsuits, less hate towards police, and more hard evidence of what happened. There are three sides to every story, your side, their side, and the truth. I’m trying to prove that you will get the truth by having body cameras equipped on police officers bulletproof vests.…
Long time ago, majority of the people of the United States would agree that a person with a blue uniform with a bright yellow badge is mostly known as a police officer, which is an individual who helps the people in need of their assistance; however, these images have changed during the 21st century, violence between deputies and civilians as they battle each other to extreme measures. Having the media to record the situation, and spiralling into a heated debate on who had the fault; however, with the help of advances in technology the problem can easily be solved. Policemen should wear body cameras to see the evidence clearly, to protect the citizens and authorities simultaneously, and have a calm atmosphere around the people.…