The Pros And Cons Of Body Cameras For Police

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Following several high-profile civilian deaths at the hands of police officers, many Americans have called for the mandatory use of body cameras by law enforcement as a means of curbing the excessive use of force and providing clear accounts of officers’ actions. Here are some of the pros and cons of body cameras for police officers:

PROS

• Provides accurate record of where police were when they turned off their body camera
  
• Helps to reinstate trust between Americans and surveillance
  
• Unlimited footage of police officers breathing heavily during a foot chase
  
• Turning camera askew allows officers to record beatings with stylish Dutch angles
  
• More things to watch
  
• Finally gives Americans glimpse at what it’s like to turn on that siren and gun it straight through a red light
  

CONS

• Major invasion of privacy for police officer and man he has in chokehold
  
• Costs money that could be used on machine guns and armored vehicles
  
• Police brutality might lose its mystique
  
• Those could be anyone’s arms bashing citizen with nightstick
  
• Distracting to officers who must now shift focus to cinematography and mise en scène
  
• Is still only going to be the irrefutable video evidence’s word against the police officer’s
  

 

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