Persuasive Essay On Body Camera

One of the sources used to disprove that body camera isn’t the answer includes Jamelle Bouie article, Keeping the Police honest. Mr. Bouie is the chief political correspondent at Slate who graduated from the University of Virginia with a political and social thought degree (Tumblr.com). His work consists of issues relating to national politics, public policies and racial inequality. His work has also been published in Slate online magazine, the New Yorker, the Washington Post and TIME Magazine (Tumblr.com). Slate is an online magazine that post about the news, politics, business, technology and culture (slate.com). In Jamelle article, Keeping the Police honest he talks about incidents where police officers were being recorded and took excessive

He also takes about how officers aren’t ready for a world where their every move can be documented (Bouie). Since the advancement of video camera being in almost all cell phone, tablets and other devices anything anyone does has the possibility of being filmed. Police officers aren’t caught up with the fact that anything they say or do themselves can be used against them in a court of law. Jamelle Bouie agrees that body camera would allow us to check up on officers and could be used as evidence during an incident but body cameras aren’t the way to solve the problem. He believe that the police department needs an outside force that will actually do their jobs in making sure officers aren’t abusing their power and being held accountable for their actions (Bouie). Body camera would only get us so far on the path to improving the criminal justice system. They can show us which officers are actually doing their jobs, and which are just abusing their power, but once we know that what is to be done with that information. An outside force that should be elected by the people should determine if an officer is over stepping and abusing his power against

Based on my research I went from all for officers being forced to wear body cameras to being indecisive on which side is right. On the up side of officers wearing body camera, it could be a way the people can regain trust in the system, something that has decline over the years. The down side to that is that people right to privacy and figuring out the perfect way for the pubic to see what’s going on without seeing who is really involved. Another pro is that police officers will probably think before they react and being sure they are following all rules and regulation to ensure they are doing the job the way it’s supposed to be done. Then there is the issue with how to fund this project with the right man power and the money to be sure it’s done right. So, doing this assignment has open my eye to the pros and cons of forcing officer to wear body cameras and made me think about both sides with an unbiased