The Framers made the government to work properly so they created the Constitution to give citizens rules to abide. Amendments are the rules that the citizens have to follow such as freedom of speech, the right to bear arms and the right of privacy. The fourth amendment is the right to privacy such as no unreasonable seizures and searches to your personal belongings and property without any warrants. A search usually has to be based on probable cause- a reasonable basis to believe that the person can be linked to a crime (Remy, 2016). In this case, the topic about whether the police should wear body cameras is violating our right of privacy or is it not?
One incident that really stood out about police officers should be wearing a body camera, is the incident about Michael Brown. On August 2014, an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by Officer Darren Wilson (Anastasia, 2015). Everyone had their own speculations on whether the officer is not telling the truth and that he didn’t shoot the teenager for self defense, but he felt threatened due to the teenagers skin color resulting in being a discrimination case to black people. In the end, the judge decided to not convict Officer Wilson (Anastasia, 2015). Questions are rising that if just police …show more content…
When somebody started to become aggressive, as soon as they were told that they were being filmed or they saw the camera, it did result in a change in behaviour”. As a result, many police officers are now agreeing to wear body cameras because it decreases criminals aggressiveness towards the community (Sanburn, 2015). Many studies suggest that people that are under surveillance are going to behave better when they are being recorded. For instance, California officers that wear body cameras used 60% less force than the officers that didn’t wear them and citizen dissatisfaction also decreased by 88% (Rutkin,
One incident that really stood out about police officers should be wearing a body camera, is the incident about Michael Brown. On August 2014, an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by Officer Darren Wilson (Anastasia, 2015). Everyone had their own speculations on whether the officer is not telling the truth and that he didn’t shoot the teenager for self defense, but he felt threatened due to the teenagers skin color resulting in being a discrimination case to black people. In the end, the judge decided to not convict Officer Wilson (Anastasia, 2015). Questions are rising that if just police …show more content…
When somebody started to become aggressive, as soon as they were told that they were being filmed or they saw the camera, it did result in a change in behaviour”. As a result, many police officers are now agreeing to wear body cameras because it decreases criminals aggressiveness towards the community (Sanburn, 2015). Many studies suggest that people that are under surveillance are going to behave better when they are being recorded. For instance, California officers that wear body cameras used 60% less force than the officers that didn’t wear them and citizen dissatisfaction also decreased by 88% (Rutkin,