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 evidence like for example, if they had a gun or his hands were up etc. these body cameras will make a difference in that and get the accused person. Police body cameras can help out in other problems like in car crashes also if the officer said a bad word when driving or if some officers don’t get along etc. police body cameras can help in these types of situations. Police body cameras can record a good amount of time up to 12 hours and some police officers record their day to day work that they did. When they record their day of what they did these cameras can help them behave better because they will be more cautious of what they are doing. German Lopez states that having these body cameras have reduced the amount of use of force by 60 percent and the citizen complains by 88 percent. These cameras cost around $200 or $1000 dollars but it will be worth money when these cameras help out the officers and others. The states need to have body cameras especially in the states where there 's a lot of violence and shootings. Police cameras can cost a lot of money but all that will be worth paying the amount they cost because with these cameras police officers will become better officers than they are right now. These cameras can prevent a lot of wrong accusing by having evidence with these cameras. Michael Aaron states that the law sets aside $10 million dollars in grants that can help law enforcement agencies buy body cameras. Having police body cameras will help in many states by reducing the amount of police officers using force. German Lopez states that in New York City, a report from the city’s public advocate found that outfitting the entire police department with body cameras would cost around $33 million. He also states that in 2013, the city paid $152 million as a result of claims of police misconduct. If the officer had a police body camera with him they will have more evidence about how Michael Brown got shot and they will see everything what happened that day. …show more content…
This is a reason why the states should have police body cameras on all the officers. It started with that situation about Michael Brown and Liz Fields states that having police body cameras we will have more evidence of what actually happened and if there was any good evidence of why the officer shot him. Another reason is that these police body cameras would have prevented Michael Brown’s death because the officer would know that he is being recorded and he would act in a different way and behaved better. Also body cams can be a way that people would be acting different way against officers because they would know that they are being recorded and they won’t do anything stupid to get them in a big problem. There has been a lot of other victims of police brutality everybody has been recording a officer