The Pros And Cons To Wear Police Body Cameras

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Nowadays there have been a lot of accidents linking police officers. Right now in the 21st century, we are seeing more things that are questioning the police officer's behavior after there have been more reports of the assassination of color people and in which they are incriminating the officers. This is why I believe that Police officers should wear body cameras for their own safety when it comes to providing sufficient evidence and stop all the complaining that the people have against them.
In the previous months, there have been situations that have come out in television and in social media where the assassinations of color people have been killed mostly by “white” police officers. This is why the use of the body cameras would be beneficial …show more content…

This is why in the article “Police Perspective: The Pros & Cons of Police Body Cameras”, Erstad declares, “...the cameras led to an 87.5 percent decrease in officer complaints “. This demonstrates that by officers wearing cameras people are not complaining much about the officers because they are able to see the footage and see that not all police officers are bad as people made them look. To sum up, Erstad also declared, “This drop in complaints can also lead to a substantial decrease in the time and resources devoted to investigating complaints…” In this case, it demonstrates that by officers wearing body cameras, it can show what really occurs and that way civilians would not start talking or rumoring about things that they are not a hundred percent sure because they were not on the scene to witness what occurred and who was the guilty one. Basically, if police officers wear their body cameras, there would be less complaining and police would be able to investigate another type of crimes and capture the most dangerous criminals who are outside in the streets committing crimes and damaging our community every time they commit their horrendous crimes in our