Body Cameras Argument Analysis

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
Williams says body cameras don’t always cause legal action between the victim and the officer being accused. This solution is invalid or ineffective because having body cameras on their officers will have more evidence on the officer doing violence on that person or civilian.(Why Body Cameras Alone Won’t Solve Our Police Abuse Problem."ThinkProgress Why Body Cameras Alone Won't Solve Our Police Abuse Problem Comments. N.p., 19 Aug. 2014. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.). This argument has been called invalid for many reasons, but William thinks this will work and he has a valid argument, but he doesn’t have facts that can back that statement up,so that's why his argument is invalid. The counter argument to this argument is that body cameras will reduce the violence and will decrease the complaints about police getting physical with the civilians. For example, “When the city of Rialto California equipped their police officers with body cams, the use of force by police was reduced by 60 percent, and the number of complaints against the department dropped by 88 percent”(Featured Sponsors." The Daily Sheeple. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.).