In today society body cameras are being used more and more by law enforcement. Body cameras are video and audio recording device used by the law enforcement mainly police officers to help monitor their interactions with the public and also during a crime investigation. Nowadays you'll see more and more officers wearing body cameras with their uniform. Over the year's body cameras on officers has gained very large attention with the police because of the police brutality that has been happening as of late. O There was an incident that sparked the increase on body cameras and that was the death of Michael Brown. The Michael Brown case is a big reason why body cameras were enforced onto police officers. The case was bout Michael Brown who was an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed on Aug 9, 2014, by a police officer in Ferguson, MO (What Happened). The shooting caused
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According to the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, officers of who wear body-worn cameras have a 93% reduction in citizen complaints against the police (Use of body-worn). From the research conducted by Institutes, It shows that police wearing body cameras tend to modify officers behavior when they are out in public. The awareness of the camera improves both the suspect demeanor and the police procedural compliance (Use of body-worn). Just from police officers wearing cameras the citizen's complaints against cops have gone down by 88%. Just from that information, it seems like the body cameras are working good in society because it is monitoring the officer's every movement and also the person they come face to face. The use of force has also gone down by 60% following the start of the body worn camera experiment in police departments (White). Also, its proven that when body worn cameras aren't present the use of force increase in
According to the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, officers of who wear body-worn cameras have a 93% reduction in citizen complaints against the police (Use of body-worn). From the research conducted by Institutes, It shows that police wearing body cameras tend to modify officers behavior when they are out in public. The awareness of the camera improves both the suspect demeanor and the police procedural compliance (Use of body-worn). Just from police officers wearing cameras the citizen's complaints against cops have gone down by 88%. Just from that information, it seems like the body cameras are working good in society because it is monitoring the officer's every movement and also the person they come face to face. The use of force has also gone down by 60% following the start of the body worn camera experiment in police departments (White). Also, its proven that when body worn cameras aren't present the use of force increase in