Argumentative Essay On Body Worn Cameras

During the last couple of years police officers have received a great deal of pressure to wear born cameras. This pressure came after events took place where deaths were caused by police officers. This article deals with a study that was conducted in Orlando, Florida with the Orlando Police Department. The study collected data from police officers within the Orlando Police department and examined their personal views on body-worn cameras. Prior to this study there had been no other experiments conducted on police officers on this issue. Other studies were conducted where police officers in Rialto, California were randomly assigned to wear body-worn cameras for a little over a year. During this time they found a 59% reduction in the use of police force and a decrease of 87.5 in citizen complaints. The study conducted in the Orlando Police Department, was important to understand the pros …show more content…
That is less than 12% of the whole department. If I would have conducted the survey I would have pushed to get all the police officers perceptions on body-worn cameras. The survey that only consisted of 15 questions could be completed within 10-20 minutes. If every police officer would have completed the survey or at least 70%, this would have resulted in greater results with high numbers to validate the police officers view on body-worn cameras. Having the participants take the survey on a computer would make the process even easier and less time consuming. Having greater participants could also mean having more female participants, this study 88.5% were males. With greater numbers could also make it more of a demand to actually have this police department adopt the use of body-worn cameras. Possibly interviewing some police officers, which would have little to no cost, would bring important observations which a survey