While most police officers do their responsibilities with integrity and uphold law and order in our communities there have been instances of alleged police misconduct. Several people have demanded that police officers wear body cameras while on duty to address these problems. body cameras may increase responsibility and openness, which is helpful for the police and the communities they serve. Body cameras can help police-community relations by filming interactions between officers and observers while also being used for evidence in situations of suspected crimes. overlooking the advantages of body cameras for police officers and the community that they serve is very important in this context.
Police officers not wearing body cameras the country
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(“The use of body cameras provided the necessary evidence to exonerate police officers falsely accused of misconduct”). There are so many police officers that get accused of doing something bad and the body camera can be useful and will be used for evidence to see if the police officer did something wrong. (“The number of severe misconduct allegations deemed false increased 2.4% with body camera footage, and the number of officers exonerated for less severe allegations related to conduct, courtesy, procedure, and service increased 6.5%”).In addition, this camera footage can be helpful for police officers that get accused of doing something bad when they get a call to go somewhere this can even be helpful for domestic violence. In addition, this camera footage can be helpful for police officers that get accused of doing something bad when they get a call to go somewhere this can even be helpful for domestic …show more content…
(“Equipping police departments with body cameras is extremely expensive as forces have to budget not only for the camera but also for ancillary equipment (such as a car charger or mount), training, data storage facilities, extra staff to manage the video data and maintenance costs”).in so many places are hard to fund money and it's hard for them to afford the cameras. Even though police officers should not wear body cameras this argument is weak because so many people from the country really want the police offer to wear body cameras so the officer can be safe and the citizen to be safe and if they do this can be really used for evidence and court that can help people that did not commit a crime. As shown above, that all police officers should wear body cameras is good because it's useful for the officer and the citizen and it's worth good evidence to teach people what's good to do and bad to