New technological advances provide new options for police and law enforcement agencies, also it presents new challenges. Nowadays a great percentage of population owns some sort of portable recording device, they can range from a simple camera phone with very poor image and sound capacity, to a very sophisticated drone with high pixel camera, magnifying zoom, and global positioning system, but no matter what it is there is always something new and more advanced every day. Police need to keep up with the technological advances. Body-worn cameras are the latest technological adaptation for police forces and law enforcement agencies. The recording devices have great potential, the goal is to capture in the video most of the police interactions
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The capabilities of the cameras vary, depending on the model, brand, features and added accessories. Some of the older models have very limited capacity, only featuring low-resolution audio and video recording, newer models include larger data storage capacity, longer battery life, fast charging capacity, night vision, global positioning system and pre-event recording (Bakardjiev, 2015). Officers wear the body-worn cameras while on shift, they record the different situations from a point-of- view perspective. The recordings provide a much better recollection of the situations than the sole use of memory by the officer. There are many studies that confirm that memory retrieval is far from perfect. The belief that an event should have happened in a certain way on the basis of our previous experiences, will likely retrieve the memory with certain gaps fill in by our natural bias (Dawes, 2015). For this reason, a body-worn camera can provide a much more objective and detailed perspective of any of the situations that the police officer witness or is part …show more content…
(Krzymien, 2016). If this is the case extra measurements should be taken for protecting any private or sensitive information.
The use of the recordings for training provides an excellent way to keep the officers well informed of legality, tactics, and procedures. Ongoing training can, at a later date, prevent dangerous situations for the officer and for the public. For example, the high-profile death of Eric Garner by police officers that provoked a response from the media asking for greater measures in the police force to avoid future situations like this one (Bakardjiev,
The capabilities of the cameras vary, depending on the model, brand, features and added accessories. Some of the older models have very limited capacity, only featuring low-resolution audio and video recording, newer models include larger data storage capacity, longer battery life, fast charging capacity, night vision, global positioning system and pre-event recording (Bakardjiev, 2015). Officers wear the body-worn cameras while on shift, they record the different situations from a point-of- view perspective. The recordings provide a much better recollection of the situations than the sole use of memory by the officer. There are many studies that confirm that memory retrieval is far from perfect. The belief that an event should have happened in a certain way on the basis of our previous experiences, will likely retrieve the memory with certain gaps fill in by our natural bias (Dawes, 2015). For this reason, a body-worn camera can provide a much more objective and detailed perspective of any of the situations that the police officer witness or is part …show more content…
(Krzymien, 2016). If this is the case extra measurements should be taken for protecting any private or sensitive information.
The use of the recordings for training provides an excellent way to keep the officers well informed of legality, tactics, and procedures. Ongoing training can, at a later date, prevent dangerous situations for the officer and for the public. For example, the high-profile death of Eric Garner by police officers that provoked a response from the media asking for greater measures in the police force to avoid future situations like this one (Bakardjiev,