Body Camera Essay

Body cameras for me personally is not an issue. I was pulled over by a police officer with a body camera recently. It happened at a McDonalds around 11’o clock at night in my hometown Reading, PA. As I was leaving the drive thru and making a left out of McDonalds I hear and see red and blue lights behind me. I pull over and shortly he comes over and introduces himself and his body camera. Then he explained why he had pulled me over. I ran a light that was above me at the exit over McDonalds…

Probles of Police’s body cameras Same as most people has their phones, police are increasingly using body cameras. The footage that these cameras capture and the public's access to it, is having a tremendous influence in the court of public opinion. For example, some of the massive protests in different U.S. cities that have followed the controversial deaths of suspects at the hands of police. And some other investigations that have cleared officers of wrongdoing when body cameras confirmed they…

Do body cameras change police behavior? Many police officers are there to do their job by protecting the community, but there are also those officers who use unnecessary force to arrest someone. There are many officers who are sent to testify in court because the suspect is said that he did not do anything wrong, but on the officer’s side of the story is totally the opposite. Therefore, the judge is most likely to give the officer the winning hand because there was no evidence shown or given by…

Police body cameras DO increase accountability for the Police Officer Technology is once again going to shape and form the way Police Officers perform their jobs functions. Since the start of Law enforcement there has always been change. This is very ironic since the culture of the organization at its heart hates change. Mention change to the department and watch moral drop. However, after time and the growing pains the change is the best thing that has ever happened. The change that is…

The idea of requirement of body cameras in the police force has exploded a controversy. Many people believe that police officers should be required to wear body cameras, while others do not. People are requiring police officers to wear body cameras because there has been cases in which people doubt justice was made. Cases like the death of Eric Garner, the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the death of Sandra Bland, and others. In these cases the families of the victims were unsatisfied…

exceptionally rapid pace. Several police executives are making critical decisions about whether purchase technologies that simply did not exist when they started their careers. Technologies such as facial recognition software, license plate readers or body cameras. For many police departments and its executives the big challenge is not whether to purchase the new technology, but rather finding the right technology for their given jurisdiction based on the problems and the crimes that they…

controversy over police officers wearing body cameras. Some people feel that the officers should wear the cameras so that there will be a video of everything happening and there will be proof of what is going on between the officers and the civilians. Other people do not want the cameras because it violates people’s privacy. This has been an ongoing debate for a while now. In this essay I want to show some of the benefits for the body cameras. The cameras have many positive features to them a…

The Need for Body Cameras in Columbus, Ohio Police Department In light of the tremendous scandals involving the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the police, as an institution, has come under an unprecedented amount of criticism from various advocacy groups. Moreover, similar events have continued to take place and the distrust in police has reached unsustainable levels. Certainly, the Columbus, Ohio Police Department has not been immune to the similar events. Just last month,…

wore body cameras. In the news, there are numerous cases about police allegedly misusing force or about citizens allegedly using force against the law enforcement. With law enforcement wearing body cameras, these well-known incidents would be no longer a problem. Not only would that be more factual, but they would be solved more efficiently. In communities around the United States, the law enforcement would be looked upon as more trustworthy. By the Oklahoma state law enforcement wearing body…

Policy Statement: The United States Congress should increase funding to provide body cameras nationwide to decrease tension between police and civilians. Introduction The deaths of police officers are 44% higher than it was last year and over 194 African Americans have been killed in encounters with police thus far according to an article from USA Today published in July 2016. Police use of force has been heavily scrutinized in recent years after fatal police encounters with unarmed Black men…