Why Are Police Body Cameras Important

A young African American named Michael Brown was shot dead by police officers in Ferguson, Missouri. A lot of African Americans were mad at police officers and were protesting and wanted justice. This brought police body cams because they didn’t had any clear evidence of what really happened that day. Also the officer that shot him said that he had a gun and people were saying that he didn’t had anything and had his hands up. That is why police body cameras should be used by officers around the states of America to have evidence and to see of what actually happened.
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 …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