In early July, the death of a civilian under the hands of the police in the U.S. occurred. Philando Castile, who was only 32 years old, was fatally shot by police officers from the passenger seat of his girlfriend’s car. According to an ABC News article by Julia Jacobo and Enjoli, the police officer planned to stop the vehicle Castile was in because he unethically assumed that Castile and the driver were robbers based on racial profiling (par. 4). After the officer killed Castile, the driver live-streamed the aftermath scene on her Facebook account and states that the officer assumed Castile was pulling out a gun instead of his wallet and shot him four times in the process. Philando Castile was fatally shot based on uncertain and false pretences.…
Many court cases have ended up in a flip lately because these body cameras are capturing the real live story. Did the police officer make the right decision or are they caught in the middle of a crime where they are the real criminal? In the article “Police Body Cameras: Should law enforcement agents wear body cameras?” it explores the pros and cons of body cameras, as well as real life stories that have occurred in the public. This article carries valid evidence that police body cameras have both positive and negative…
Therefore, he is an expert in this field and has much experience dealing with cases regarding the consequences of police brutality due to the government not implementing body cameras. In addition, the author provides a reason to believe by uniquely expressing his viewpoint and boldly stating his opinion on the effect of body cameras on police officers and citizens. O’Mara states, “People act better when they know they're being watched -- or recorded. Cops act better, and the people they encounter on the street are more cooperative.” O’Mara references a studied commissioned by the Police Foundation in 2012 that displays statistical evidence proving few force incidents with body cameras.…
I believe by having body cameras, officers will be more careful of what they do. In addition, the public will know what happen by seeing the evidence in the body cameras used by officers.…
The idea of requirement of body cameras in the police force has exploded a controversy. Many people believe that police officers should be required to wear body cameras, while others do not. People are requiring police officers to wear body cameras because there has been cases in which people doubt justice was made. Cases like the death of Eric Garner, the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the death of Sandra Bland, and others. In these cases the families of the victims were unsatisfied with the decision juries took on the death of their loved ones.…
With all the police brutality claims now there is so much controversy over police officers wearing body cameras. Some people feel that the officers should wear the cameras so that there will be a video of everything happening and there will be proof of what is going on between the officers and the civilians. Other people do not want the cameras because it violates people’s privacy. This has been an ongoing debate for a while now. In this essay I want to show some of the benefits for the body cameras.…
Body cameras will survey police behavior, thereby minimizing any inappropriate decisions. For example, in 2012, the city of Rialto outfitted all 70 of their uniformed police officers with cameras. This later on lead to an 88% reduction in public complaints against officers, and a 60% decline in officers’ use of force. This shows that police officers will act completely different and will watch their actions when they know that they are being recorded. People act differently when they know they are being watched because the presence of others encourages them to do the ‘right’ thing in order to gain social approval.…
Throughout the past 10 years there has been many talks on whether the police should be required to wear body cameras. Throughout all the research and studies regarding these cameras, these have been many pros to body cams but there have also been cons and many challenges to implementing this system in police forces throughout the country. Many different police stations have done experiments with these cameras and have all shown very positive feedback. Regardless of the amount of work necessary to implement these cameras, it should be necessary for officers to wear these body cameras because they have the potential to save lives. To go along with that, police should be forced to wear these body cameras because they have the potential to save lives, give better representation than hearing a testimony, and make suspects less likely to run or attack an officer because everything they do is caught on camera.…
Although many citizens may believe otherwise, it has been proven that the uses of police body cameras are beneficial to all aspects of law enforcement. In the article, “Scholar Warns Body Cams Used to Show Underrepresented in Worst Light,” freelance journalist and well renowned writer Jamaal Abdul-Alim argues that the use of police body cameras will result in the reduction of both complaints against officers and police force. Abdul-Alim supports his main argument when he presents a yearlong study on the effect police body cameras have on law enforcement that states, “Wearing BWC’s by police can reduce both officer use of force and subsequent complaints against officers” (8). Abdul-Alim then goes into the specifics when he provides the reader…
Body cameras serve a critical role in preventing violence. Both subjects are less likely to use physical aggression while the camera is active. Einvestigator tries to have body-cameras passed as a law in hopes that both subjects will act on a better manner. In regards to both the Ferguson and Baltimore cases, there is a good chance neither Wilson nor the six cops found guilty would…
The article Police Body Cameras analyzes the possible outcomes of this idea. The article states that using body cameras could offer protection to both parties, equating to a win-win scenario. Not only would the footage “protect the public against police misconduct”, but it would also “protect the police against false accusations of abuse” (p. 8). The footage collected from the cameras would offer accurate account of incidents which have in the past been blurred with bias against police as well as the blue shield of trust which protects fellow officers from their wrongdoing with cover up stories. The same article further explains that body cameras could be the bridge of trust needed between the public and law enforcement through the feeling of security they provide.…
Police body cameras can be the next big thing to help and protect officers and get the accused criminals. Although opponents say that police body cameras can invade privacy it does not because it is a way that officers can get evidence of what happened that day and it can help in court cases if an officer is being accused of something they didn’t do or if the officer did something wrong that he did not supposed to do. Police body cameras can also get evidence if the police officer is doing his or her job well. It can also help in having…
The numbers recorded from this had a great turn out. This experiment showed that when police officers wear body cameras while on duty, the amount of crime as well as complaints on officers is significantly lower than with cops who do not wearing body cameras. To be exact, the use of force by officers wearing cameras dropped 59 percent while complaints on cops dropped a staggering 87 percent from the previous year.(P Foundation) This stuck out to the public so much that even the President began to encourage police to wear body cameras. President Obama then went to Congress to ask for funding for fifty thousand body worn cameras nationwide.…
Records show that the public’s trust in the police is at an all time low; therefore departments using body cameras have a greater advantage of increasing trust and improving relationships with the general public. Police body cameras benefit all parties, they provide documented objective video evidence that can be used to prosecute or exonerate a suspect (Gass). All in all, the launch of police body cameras protects civilians, and provides a record of the interactions between police officers and…
The citizens of the United States have been debating whether the police should wear body cameras. Recently this debate has gotten a lot more prevalent after the unjust deaths of an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Missouri , and the death of Eric Garner in New York City. The United States death by police rate is by far higher than any other country, “ In 2011 police killed six people in Australia, two in England, six in Germany, and according to an FBI count, 404 in the United States.” (Stanley 2). Body cameras are small compact cameras that police would have to wear in order for law enforcement agencies to see what exactly occurred if there was a problem.…