Police officers are essential to keeping our society safe. Growing up in Omaha, a city with a large gang presence and the highest black homicide rate in the country, I came to appreciate the role officers played in society. They maintain order and a sense of security. They should also act as positive role models within community and schools. Unfortunately, due to inflammatory news reporting and the heightened attention on uncommon and unfortunate instances that have occurred, a great deal of the
The Benefits of Police Body Cameras “Police monitors!” what's that you say? It's an investment that will decrease the issue of police misconduct, police violence, and racial profiling. These body cameras will help give insight to on duty officers when they're on patrol. The epidemic and awareness in the past year alone of police cruelty has made the investment in this technology even more crucial and some states like Texas, Chicago, Arizona and Maryland and other small towns have already
2015 Should the Police Wear Body Cameras? These last few years have been full of unjust homicides. The homicide in Ferguson, Missouri was a heavily disputed murder that happened shortly before 2015 which occurred on August 15. An African-American teenager was brutally shot and killed by an Officer. We don’t have a clear understanding of what happened in this incident. As a result of this unjust murder, Mayor Bill de Basio created a plan to outfit police officers with video cameras (Ganchor 1). If
would like to present the issue of body cameras in the police force. Along with extra training for your police officers that serve the public. The real benefit of having video is to capture and record the facts of contentious situations that every officer faces. Unfortunately, not all of these take place in front of the patrol car. If they are away from their vehicle, whether due to a foot chase or because you are investigating something in a building, having a camera involved will make sure no detail
When a police officer is called to check on a crime, their lives are at stake. Their job is to serve and to protect the public. Many times they are put in dangerous situations. There have been many incidents where a criminal makes false charges against the arresting officer. If a police officer has a body camera, there would be proof of any wrongful doing. Police officers should be able to wear body cameras. The cameras would be a form of evidence in cases where the victim claims police
Do police officers really need body cameras? In what ways could it help solve a criminal case. If they should have body cameras would it be necessary for all officers to have them? If they had body cameras they would be able to prove people wrong if the others were lying about what the police officer did. People do not believe the police anymore. In an article By: Jay Stanley for the American Liberties Union says “white officers kill more black people than white.” So they immediately think it
Brown. Sandra Bland. Eric Garner. All victims of police brutality in America. Police brutality is best defined as the use of excessive and unnecessary force by officers towards citizens—whom are generally unarmed. An example of police brutality includes the shooting and death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This is one of the many reason body cameras need to be necessary for police to wear. Police should wear body cameras because they would help to decrease violence and unnecessary
Police Officers in America Should Wear Body Cameras Today, our justice system is having trouble with officers making bad choices by doing violence to innocent people! This makes the communities and families furious with our justice system. This is an controversy America needs to solve and one idea is called a body camera. Body cameras are cameras that go on the chest of a person. Police officers need to wear body cameras because it can prevent officers from causing the violence such as killing
by a police officer. Police without body cameras are very unaccountable, can not be completely trusted, and being human, are capable of errors. Half of the time the witnesses do not know what they are saying, and they change their story or get it wrong. Body cameras are video recordings that are usually used by law enforcement to record their interactions with the public or gather video evidence at crime scenes. Only 25% of the 17,000 police agencies use body cameras (stanley). Police body cameras
Body worn cameras Body worn cameras “are small devices, usually attached to the head or upper body of a police officer, and they're used to record their day-to-day-work. Some cameras have enough battery life for a couple hours of recording, while others can last as long as 12 hours” (German Lopez 2014).The body worn cameras weighed 108 grams and is water proof and also shows the recording in colour. (Eugene P. Ramirez 2014).The footage that the cameras record will stored in an internal and secure