Argumentative Essay On Body Cameras

The New age of enforcement: Police and body cameras.

Did you know that first large police force to actually use body cameras was back in 2010? (Griffith, 87) This large police force was one of the first police departments to recognize the benefit of Body Cameras. This large police force is from California in the big town of Oakland. This police force used to be inexperienced with cameras. Now five years of experience the Oakland police force is one of the best police forces in the nation. While there is a lot of discussion out whether police should be required to wear cameras, history, polices safety, recent insistences, companies, untrustworthy officer, and technology suggest, the requirement be approved.

Imagine if there was a body cameras

at the Boston massacre. Wouldn’t that solve the problem of the American wanting war? It would have showed the British that America did not want them. With a body camera in the midst of the Massacre it would provide more evidence to that America did not want another country ruling their country. My teacher Mrs. King taught me about this topic. I remember her telling us about the trial afterwards about the men who shot the innocent people in Boston. With this camera evidence of this crime we would be able to see both sides of the conflict. Since we would be able to see the sides of the conflict the men that shot the people of Boston would have been fairly judged. With cops this whole incident applies. The Onion.com says that when we get to look through that camera you get to see the both sides of the scene. (www.theonion.com)
“If a citizen knows the officer is wearing a camera, chances are the citizen will behave a little better." (Timothy B lee) As Mr. Lee says body cameras make officer better act better and protect them. Just think if you were getting recorded on stage or just being recorded out of the blue. Wouldn’t you try to behave the best you can. These incidents also happens in the camera pictures. How often has your friend taken a picture of you that looks dumb, stupid or just plain ugly? It happens a lot! Then your friend and you get in fight and you eventually delete the phot or picture. Everyone wants to look good in front of the camera. Another reason why cameras help people stay in line is they know the consequences of shooting that officer. When people see the camera on the officer they definitely know that the police department has hard core evidence that a person assaulted them. Therefore when an officer wears this body camera it does not just provided evidence for crimes it saves shootings happening by preventing them.
Without body cameras, the evidence that we would not have collected would be astounding.

(Wendell Gillard) Body cameras play a big role in today recent incidents. “I was scared to death. The last thought I had go through my mind when I pulled the trigger, and I'll never forget this … was that I was too late. I was too late. And because of that, I was going to get killed. Worse, my (partner) was going to get killed” said Officer Brian Cruz (KSl.com) This beloved incident happened in our beloved Utah. This incident happened in Utah right outside of the 7/11. The officer (Brian Cruz) asked a few men to put their hands up in their because of believed weapon possession. The two men that were their put their hands up in the air but one just walked away from the officer. The officer asked the guy many times to get his hands up the guy would not. Officer reacted quickly to the guy and shot him. Luckily this whole incident was recorded on his body camera. His body camera was used when the guy family tried to sue the police force. With this hard video tape evidence the officer did not try guilty and it was proven to do it for the safety of him and others. Another incident this January happened where a car was overturned and fell into a river. This crash was unnoticed until a local fisherman 24hours later noticed the car. This local fisherman called the police to tell them about the car. When the police came the discovered a baby in it and a mother. They knew the mother was dead, but the baby was alive and crying. The police man were rushed once figuring out the baby was alive. After 5 minutes of pushing the police man were able to grab the baby and run to the ambulance. This story became a miracle to everybody around the world. People started calling the baby miracle baby. Luckily the police men were wearing body cameras to film what had happened. With this body camera people were able to know the whole story of the baby Lilly. The public through the camera was able to

benefit and get info for from it. The last and final example of took place last September. When neighbors called the police on him. The neighbors called on him because of some unexpecting things that he was doing. A police man came up to him after the call and asked him several questions. Then this angry person hit him with his shovel. Then the officer started firing at him. This officer was not pressed charges but was saved again by the body camera he had. As you can see recent instances have shown that cameras need to be on police officers.
Companies now have been using cameras for a long, just take a look outside of your local grocery store, and I am sure you can find one. Companies are starting to make the change with cameras in general especially grocery stores. Have you ever seen a person attempt to steal something from a store? That was valuable? That rarely happens to stores with cameras. Companies are now realizing what it is taking to catch the thieves. According, to shoplifting.org “
More than 10 million people have been caught shoplifting in the last five years.” See how many people are caught stealing each year. That is a lot of people! See with cameras all around stores you can catch shoplifters. Now that is why police need body cameras to catch the bad guys.
Have you ever had the experience of dealing with untrustworthy person? It is Painful! “When you put a camera on a police officer, they tend to behave a little better, follow the rules a little better and follow the rules. (Timothy B lee) If you are being filmed all day wouldn’t you try to be your best, and look good in front of the camera? Instead of an officer purchasing donuts and sacking out in their car. An officer knows that their being watched so they should behave a lot better than usual. I think the Police departments with the footage should generate pay based on what the police officer is doing, with their day. Officer need these cameras to be kept in line to help the general public, with these cameras officer become trustworthy people, and agency know the true extent of their work.
Technology over the years changed such that we are exploring the idea of requiring police officer to wear body cameras. Every year a new gadget comes out that makes the world a better place, except for the people who abuse the products. People who abuse these products use them to kill, to steal, to rob, and to cause harm. With the advancement of these technologies we need the police officers to step up their game in the high tech world, and fight against the new age of cybercrimes, and reality crimes.
Evidently, Police cameras are worth the hassle. Police cameras need to be approved because of history would be solved if the camera was there, police safety would be higher, crime from today will go down, companies will get better technology, technology would be able to advance, and there will not be as many untrustworthy people. Support this program by having