Body Cameras Advantages

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The advantages of using body cameras on law enforcement officers, is that they protect officer from false accusations, reduce agency liability and citizen complaints, and provide as evidence in the court of law. In the past few years different agencies have been experimenting with and the use of body cameras for law enforcement officers. On December 1, 2014, President Barack Obama offered $263 million dollars to police agencies for the purchasing of body-worn cameras (thenewstribute). Before the use of body cameras, there were only cameras mounted to the dash board of the officer’s vehicles. Even though these cameras would record, but if anything happened outside the range of the cameras, we wouldn’t have video prove of what happened. This

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