Cost Of Body Cameras

Many argue that the program costs too much, it’s wasting our tax money, it’s not well supervised and it’s invading the public 's privacy. Also, multiple sheriffs are trying to argue that their police department doesn’t have enough financial stability to spend on body cameras. Another factor is not just buying body cameras for each police department, but storing each video footage is one of the big problems for camera manufacturers (Kaste, 2015). Out of 18,000 only 7,000 sheriff agencies adopted of wearing body cameras. For Sheriff Ricky Adam of Hancock County, “We haven’t been able to buy a new patrol car going on four years,” Adam says. “I don’t know how I possibly have the money to spend on cameras.” (Janet, 2015). Each state doesn’t have …show more content…
(Sullivan, 2015) Police officers experienced a lot of horrifying incidents throughout their police life, therefore, sometimes police officers are now so desensitized to seeing it too often. One incident is when a 5 year Montana Veteran police officer killed an unarmed man during a traffic stop and was in tears after he shot him. He thought the man was reaching out for a gun even though the police officer told him multiple times to put his hands up so the police officer fired 3 shots at him resulting in his death. Up to this point, it was questionable if the officer might or might not be telling the truth, but due to the police officer wearing a body camera that were presented during the court, it was clearly seen that the police officer really did warn the man to not move and even pull out his gun to warn him that he is serious and he will shoot him if he keeps moving but the man still keep moving and that’s when the police officer decided to shoot him. Later on, they found out that the unarmed man was intoxicated with alcohol, meth, marijuana and other illegal drugs. Earlier this year, the same police officer also shot another man that kept moving, finding out later on that the man is reaching for a BB gun. Consequently, the …show more content…
Each state has different crime rates so the state 's government will have the right to choose on how they can upload video footages. Some states can publicly upload it online or the public will have to request for a specific video footage. This solution sounds easy to say, but it’s going to be hard to implement to the whole nation, therefore, both the national government and state government and even citizens will have to work altogether so new rules/laws about police officer wearing body cameras can be