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Truthfulness is hard to come by. By all means, when an officer wears a body camera, it can remove all doubt about the events leading up to and including an apprehension or shooting. We are so tired of listening to stories that are not true. We are so tired of listening to people lie just to stop themselves from being arrested, including having innocent lives being taken away. We should not be living in a society where we are afraid of our “defenders”. Overall, we are just so tired of being betrayed by our own people. Many policemen have been abusing the benefits they have as police officers and the majority of us are in denial about it. That is not fair whatsoever. They took the job to protect and serve not to cheat the civilians. Who are they …show more content…

In the month of August in 2015, a man was shot seconds after a police officer turned off her body camera. This man, Armand Bennett, did not display any aggressiveness. The officer stopped and demanded to know why he had a gun in his car. Bennett mentioned that he worked at Davita Dialysis as a security guard and was told to have his weapon with him while on duty. This was a reasonable explanation. However, after the officer asked him to step out of his vehicle, she pointed her gun at him and started yelling at him. I know that was very unnecessary. If he would have tried to hurt her or she feared for his life, then she may have had a motive to react as she did. She proceeded by grabbing Bennett by the hair for no reason. This caused him to panic and run. As a human being, I feel uncomfortable and worried at the fact that this woman used unnecessary violence. It is wrong. Ask yourself, why are the police officers abusing their power? Why do they believe that they are an exception to the rule? We are all equal, they are not any different from us. If we are going to be kept in check, then policemen should be kept in check as well. It’s fair enough. They say we are all equal, but now that I 've realized it, we are far from equal and that should have been changed a long time

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​The police force we all know has one main focus, to protect people and the property in which they stand. Patrolling the areas in which they are assigned to, they make sure civilians follow the law and they handle any breakage of the law as well. Our police force is supposed to make us feel safe wherever we are. They have undoubtedly done a great job in doing so. However, over the past couple of years, the police force has taken a toll for the worse.

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Tulsa police officer, Betty Shelby, shot an unarmed black man after his car was found abandoned in the middle of the road. Federal, State, and local authorities have launched investigations into the officer shooting. Tiffany Crutcher, the victim 's twin sister, has urged prosecutors to press charges immediately. Terence Crutcher was shot and killed after he ignored direct orders from the officers confronting him, and as officers thought he was reaching for a weapon. There was no weapon found on him, or in his vehicle.

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David Harris started to brag to his friends that he was the one who killed the officer. "Swore up and down", wanted attention for the story. He later had denied being in Dallas, he denied about the shooting. However if the person felt like he was telling the truth, he would then say he had done it. He later led the detective to a swamp area, a revolver was found in the water, but seemed odd that it was in good condition for supposedly being thrown in the water.

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The suspect continued to run at Wilson. Wilson then took aim at the suspect, fired multiple shots at him, and paused to see if the suspect would stop charging. The suspect still proceeded to charge without slowing down and Officer Wilson fired several more shots until the suspect dropped to the ground. Wilson radioed in the shooting and the investigation

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Should All Police Officers Wear Body Cameras? Surely everyone has wondered about the accountability of police officers, but maybe this will no longer be an issue. With the help of police body cameras, officers will be accountable for the good they do, and in some situations the awful actions. Although police body cameras would be a moral idea, there are some downsides. The body cameras could be seen as an invasion of privacy, as they would record everyday behavior for police officers, which is not necessary to record.

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Tamir Rice was a twelve-year-old boy playing in the snow at his local park, making the mistake of waving an air pellet gun at strangers- a mistake that would cost him his life. A bystander made a call to 911, and when the police arrived on the scene, within seconds of exiting the vehicle, Rice was shot. According to an article by the Pittsburgh Tribune, although police have been caught in the act, captured on camera committing a crime, they are not prosecuted 96 percent of the time. November 22, 2014, twelve-year-old, Tamir Rice, was playing and posing with his air pellet gun when a man sitting in the park called 911 to report, “there’s a guy here with a pistol, pointing it at everybody… [The gun] is probably a fake, but you know what,

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Although officers claim they aren’t as unprofessional as everyone says, many people beg to differ. A lot of people have evidence on how they were mistreated, and how the officers weren’t at all professional. Others have been killed and seriously injured, but the idea is still up in the air after several years. To protect themselves, and others around them, police officers should be forced to wear body cameras while they’re in a case or are talking to a suspect while on duty. Having to wear body cameras would be a positive way to help the authorities to see the truth better than just having to listen to the voice recorder.

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His neighbor appears to be intoxicated and becomes violent when the officer reaches for his handcuffs. He takes a swing at the officer and then attempts his escape. Thirty years prior, the officer would have had the option to draw his weapon and fire or risk a dangerous car chase. Thankfully, he has a Taser gun on his belt. He is able to draw, fire, and apprehend the subject with little effort and no loss of life.

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Have you ever seen a police officer wearing a body camera? If you did, you are one of a kind, we are still debating if the police should wear them. The video recordings from body cameras provide valuable evidence while raising high concerns of privacy. The recordings cameras provide are valuable when police and civilian witness differ. I believe that police officers should wear body cameras for two important reasons.

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From interactions on the street to testifying in open court, an officer’s word is everything. Once that credibility is gone it is almost impossible for that officer to continue in a law enforcement capacity. Body cameras have emerged as a potential solution to the evolving discussion around police trust and legitimacy issues. One benefit of having a body camera is that if a critical incident, officer involved shooting, or accusation of brutality arises, the camera will provide footage from the officer’s point of view that

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Some may worry that body cameras on police officers are not necessary a great idea, some may even say it’s against their privacy. According to “Cameras on Cops a Privacy Question “states that Governments and police departments argue that while the cameras provide transparency and accountability, they may also compromise a citizen 's right to privacy and the integrity of some investigations which will inevitably rely on the video in a

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Police brutality remains a common yet controversial topic around the world. Police brutality is “the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians” (thelawdictionary.org). It’s a topic that segregates communities and makes each other their enemy. Specifically, a white officer has been the enemy of the black community. Unfortunately, the tension between police and blacks grew over the past few decades.

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According to the FBI, 49,851 officers were assaulted in the line of duty, with an injury rate of 29.2 percent and twenty- seven were murdered in 2012. This makes police officials go into a panic mode and I believe it affects their judgment when it comes to using certain forces on suspects. For example, there was a case where a man wasn’t cooperating with police officials, so the police officials used a taser gun on him. Still, the man refused to go down and three other police officers jumped in to help out. The four officers decided to use excessive force by beating the man with a police stick and tasered him multiple times.

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Law enforcement is ensuring an act of obedience to the law. Police officers often take advantage of enforcing the law and end up using violence when it 's not necessary. According to the Washington post ( 2015 ) every 28 hours an unarmed colored person is killed by a police officer. I think it is time for these and other victims who were treated unjustly by police officers to get justice. These deadly law enforcement incidents must come to an end.

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It will give everyone clear footage, and protect both the officer and everyone else. The footage given through the past few years has been grainy and not good enough to see the things that need to be seen to help find out the truth. By wearing a body camera it can be filmed in real time. Other footage is given on smart phones, and can be edited to take out some of the footage to make it seem like the truth. Everyone will actually see the truth about what goes

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