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-Text: The United States Federal Government ought to mandate that all police officers wear body cameras and regulate police usage of those cameras. |
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-Body cameras are key to increase transparency, performance, and accountability of police officers. |
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-Miller, Lindsay JD. Senior Research Associate at the Police Executive Research Forum, Jessica Toliver PERF's Director of Technical Assistance, and Police Executive Research Forum. Implementing a Body-Worn Camera Program: Recommendations and Lessons Learned. Washington, DC: Office of Community Oriented Policing Services 2014. |
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-Police leaders who have deployed body-worn cameras say there are many benefits associated with the devices. They note that body-worn cameras are useful for documenting evidence; officer training; preventing and resolving complaints brought by members of the public; and strengthening police transparency, performance, and accountability. In addition, given that police now operate in a world in which anyone with a cell phone camera can record video footage of a police encounter, body-worn cameras help police departments ensure events are also captured from an officer’s perspective. Scott Greenwood of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said at the September 2013 conference: ¶ The average interaction between an officer and a citizen in an urban area is already recorded in multiple ways. The citizen may record it on his phone. If there is some conflict happening, one or more witnesses may record it. Often there are fixed security cameras nearby that capture the interaction. So the thing that makes the most sense—if you really want accountability both for your officers and for the people they interact with—is to also have video from the officer’s perspective |
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-Empirics from California prove that the usage of body cameras significantly decreases excessive force. |
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-Friedman, Andrew Co-Executive Director for the Center for Popular Democracy, JD NYU . "Building Momentum From the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Promoting Justice in Policing." Building Momentum From The Ground: n. pag. Popular Democracy. The Center for Popular Democracy, Apr. 2015. Web. 10 Nov. 2016. |
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-A 2012 study evaluating the use of body-worn cameras by the Rialto police department in California over a period of 12 months suggests more than a 50 reduction in the total number of incidents of use-of-force. Force was twice as likely to have been used by officers who were not wearing cameras. Complaints about police officers fell 88 compared to the previous 12-month period. |