Should Cops Be Required to Wear Body Cameras on the Job?

At today's show, I learned about the pilot project at the Minnesota State Police Station. There, 36 policemen tested the body camera while on duty. One month after the trial, the result is an effective tool for monitoring the camera how the police interact with civilians, blocking someone, responding to a phone call on the street I showed it to be.

The Police Foundation also announced a one-year survey on the impact of a body-worn camera on the use of force by the police. This study concluded that wearing a camera would greatly reduce the use of force and make a complaint to the police.

"These findings indicate that the total number of weapons cases has decreased by more than 50% compared to the regulatory requirements and the number of complaints of citizens has increased nearly tenfold in the first 12 months of the experiment, Mentioned. This research

However, some people object to police equipped with a body camera. This measure can bring a lot of money to the state, eventually becoming ineffective, as the police can decide whether to turn the camera on or off, especially in the face of difficulties.

Critics against such initiatives also consider data security as a challenge. Duluth police chief Gordon Ramsey explained in an interview that only about one-third of hundreds of videos collected daily by his police station are personally used for investigation. The rest of the video data is open to the public and can be used by anyone - such as video with children or video of people 's house. Protecting this data requires extra effort and resources.

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"The cops should be asked to wear a camera on their body, a body-mounted camera provides important information about the quality of interaction between police officers, the public, the media and researchers. These videos do not solve all the discussions about the appropriateness of the actions of officials they describe, but the information they have revealed can advance empirical police reform.The police and the public Effective way of behavior and action Every method of resistance reduction (ie use of force), civilian complaints reduction, civilian injury reduction, and public injury reduction are all net plus Implementation

When the Minneapolis police shot Justine Damond last week, one of the problems happened: police officer Mohamed Noor who shot Damha and his partner all wore a body camera. The Minneapolis police station policy requires that the police open a camera before exercising force and talking with citizens. But they did not - we do not know the exact way to shoot yet. This shows the shortcomings of other body cameras, in particular: due to technical limitations (especially battery and storage limitations) and privacy issues (especially for civilians being shot by the police in particular) It is not currently open. . Therefore, it is up to the individual official to finally decide when to turn on the camera. This allows the police to effectively hide bad policing acts intentionally or unintentionally.