We are in a society where police officers wearing cameras on their vest would hold police officers accountable as well as increase creditability for the police department. According to the Washington post 885 people were shot dead by the police this year and only three cases resulted in an officer being charged with a crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation explains that most of the police officers aren’t charged due to lack of evidence or the implication of a police officer stating he or she had to act in self-defense. Due to all the complications and the continuously rising incidents police officers should be required to wear video cameras while on duty to prevent violence, to show the human side of policing, and finally to increase accountability.
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Many arguments have been state from people that are pro body cameras and some that are con but the pros outweigh. With the requirements of body cameras; we can prevent many lethal problems such as violence from both the civilians and the officers. According to KOIN6 (news) cameras run from $15-1,000 per unit so evidently they are expensive but we need to look at how much impact it would have on our society and even the world. This conversation of body cameras is actually in action,” President Barack Obama’s announcement to request $263 million to fund police body cameras and training for law enforcement in the United States, many agencies have already started using or testing the technology” (KOIN 6). Our futures will hopefully have less issues and loss of a loved ones because cameras will eliminate many misconceptions and understanding between the officers and civilians. A quote by Rebecca McNutt comes to mind when I think about cameras; “People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines”. Cameras are and will always be our time machines and it’s a matter of if we take advantage of
Many arguments have been state from people that are pro body cameras and some that are con but the pros outweigh. With the requirements of body cameras; we can prevent many lethal problems such as violence from both the civilians and the officers. According to KOIN6 (news) cameras run from $15-1,000 per unit so evidently they are expensive but we need to look at how much impact it would have on our society and even the world. This conversation of body cameras is actually in action,” President Barack Obama’s announcement to request $263 million to fund police body cameras and training for law enforcement in the United States, many agencies have already started using or testing the technology” (KOIN 6). Our futures will hopefully have less issues and loss of a loved ones because cameras will eliminate many misconceptions and understanding between the officers and civilians. A quote by Rebecca McNutt comes to mind when I think about cameras; “People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines”. Cameras are and will always be our time machines and it’s a matter of if we take advantage of