A lens of a camera, can determine the safety of your life. In the 21st century technological advances have changed our society a lot. Many of these technological advancements made it easier for police officers to catch criminals. Some examples of these technologies are facial recognition software, automated license plate readers, GPS, and social media. However all these technologies are not any good to protect the police of any unreasonable accusation of misuse of their authority. And this is where the police body camera comes in handy and shoots a footage of any incident that comes against the civilian and the police officer. The big question is “ Should police officers wear body cameras if they are given one?”
Michael brown was an unarmed 18 year-old African American that was shot to death by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Ever since that incident, many people argue that if there was a footage of the
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In addition, more than 90 percent of complaints against police officers fell compared with the previous year. “This is a promising tool for police officers, which is likely to be a game changer not only for the professionalization of policing, but in terms of police-public relations,” (Dr. Barak Ariel, 2014) The researchers of Institute of Criminology did an experiment on nearly 1,000 police officers on duty. Group A was given a body camera that was worn on a shirt pocket that captured the POV (point of view) of the officer. Group B was the control group where they got no cameras. This experiment was to see if the officers used force in any of their shifts. The result of this experiment was so better than I thought. More than twice of the control group B used more force than the group A with cameras. This evidence shows how big of a difference it makes when someone acknowledges that they are being