Law Enforcement Officers via the wearing of body worn cameras can help protect people’s constitutional rights, it will help lower police misconduct, and it will promote public trust. In the recent years there has been many debates surrounding the use of body cameras by law enforcement officials. The utilization of body worn cameras would be a grea idea and an excellent resource to document law enforcement daily activities. Though a lot of people believe that the use of body worn cameras may be an invasion of their privacy (4th Amendment right), law enforcement should be able to use the technology of wearing body cameras because it will give the public a perspective of what law enforcement deal with on a daily basis. Body cameras will play an important role by provided evidence in court, protecting the public and also protecting the law enforcement officers. By doing it this way police officers will be able to do the community policing concept without being bias and equally upholding the law and the United States Constitution. The ultimatum for the wearing of the body cameras on Police uniforms is to protect the public and law enforcement officers from wrongdoing by giving the public the day to day activities of what law enforcement has to encounter and how they react in …show more content…
Body cameras on law enforcement officers can by far be one of the best ways to slow down or even stop law enforcement officer’s misconduct in the field by providing a bird’s eye view of the law enforcement officer’s encounters with the public in the community they have sworn to protect. Body cameras can be a deterrent and possibly make law enforcement officers and the citizens think very hard before acting in an inappropriate manner because they know they are being recorded and these recording can be used as evidence in a court of