Case Proposal: CCPD Board Of Directors And Chief Of Police David Brown

Tyler Dobbs

Adrian Berry

English 1301

12-6-14

Proposal

To: CCPD board of directors and Chief of Police David Brown,

Problem

It seems in that in today’s society officers all over the world are thought of as lacking in moral judgment, and often too quick to pull the trigger that can fire the city into anarchy and pandemonium. Officers of the law are sworn to protect it’s citizens .and some calls must be made in a single instance. Those calls could determine life or death for the suspects and all people involved. The transparency and exposed heart of what lies at the police headquarters needs to be visible to the public’s view. If the all-seeing and judging eye of the people of our city can see and understand reasoning as to why certain

That is why endorsing the relatively new idea of body cameras should be at the top of the list for this coming year's budget consideration. The Issuing of every officer a visual recording device will open the eyes to the public, as to what really transpires behind the lines of law enforcement agency. From the day to day patrolling to the tracking down of people with warrants for their arrest. Every uniformed officer should be equipped with a camera that records public interaction during the entire shift. The video that is recorded should be treated as evidence as would be automatically sent to the station where it would be stored as evidence. The video evidence should not be kept indefinitely and should be deleted after an agreed upon time frame by the public and the police chief. No piece of film should ever be revealed to the public unless presented in a court of law. Also no film should ever under any circumstance be revealed on television or any other social media site. The officers themselves should not be allowed access to the video unless a judge mandates that the video be presented in a court for a hearing about the instance that transpired the day of, “said

No wrongful accusations of abuse would be charged to officers, and the public would be protected as well. The Rialto California police department was one of the first to experiment with the effects of bodily worn cameras on law enforcement officers. The study by Cambridge University, with the help of the Rialto California police department showed that when people are aware that their actions are being watched and recorded that they are more likely to behave in a more civilized and respectful manner. During the time period that the officers had worn the cameras there was “more than a 50% reduction in the total number of incidents of use-of-force.” When considering the application of such statistics to a city the size of Dallas the reduction in crime rate would be tremendously different. The three major points listed below sum-up why issuing every police officer a body camera would be a good