Innocent until Proven Guilty Police Body Cameras

Innocent until Proven Guilty Police Body CamerasAll patrol officers should wear body cameras because it helps to protect the public, it helps with the patrol officers safety, the back and forth acc use of racial profiling, and withal the neighborhood safety.Body cameras can serve as a reliable eyewitness. Without the body cameras, it would be the victims word against the police officers. According to The Daily Beast, These are the Victims of the Dallas Police Massacre Brent Thompson was an officer who died during the Dallas Police Massacre. Before association the Department in 2009, Thompson trained police in Iraq and Afghanistan while working for a private military contractor. it also states how great of a police officer Thompson was andIn May, Thompson shared a meme that she read, when I die my friends better do this at my funeral written on top of a scene from the show Eastbound rarify if worn cameras during the deadliest day for U.S law enforcement since 9/11 maybe the w orld would know who killed the wonderful officer Thompson.The use of body cameras can protect police officers from being falsely accused of unnecessary actions or brutality against suspected criminals. According to Considering Police body cameras, Marcus Jeter was arrested by New Jersey Police officers during the summertime of 2012 and subsequently, charged with eluding the police, resisting arrest, and aggravated assault on a police officer. Parts of this encounter, were caught on tape by the dashboard camera in the officers cruiser. Jeter maintains from the offset that the officers has used excessive force while arresting him and that he had not acted violently. The Bloomfield Police Department conducted an internal investigation and found the officers did nothing wrong. Jeters arrest, his attorney uncover evidence that a second police cruiser had been on the scene that night. This shows how police officers are also getting the protection they deserve while using body cameras, w ithout this evidence from the video cameras it would of been the officers word against Jeters. Police officers are more desirely to be protected from criminals trying to storm them because evidence is available to concern them.The number of wipeouts from last year has been outrageous. Many people are concerned about not only the safety of citizens but also the use of guns. few people feel as if the deaths of most citizens has been because of the use of racial profiling. Veronica Majerol from New York Times Upfront states in the case of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. around witnesses confirmed Officer Darren Wilsons account that hed shot Michael Brown in self-defense. Others said Brown didnt pose a threat and that the shooting amounted to murder. A jury heady not to charge Wilson with a crime, but what really happened that night? If the encounter had been captured on video, some would have argued wed know After Wilsons innocence and the death of Brown thousands of p eople looked at this case as the use of racial profiling killing innocent people because of the color of their skin. As stated higher up people would know more about the case of Browns and hes death if use of body cameras were worn during this incident.Furthermore, body cameras is also a great way to pee safer communities. David French response to Trayvon Martin case An armed neighborhood-watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, shot and killed an unarmed teen, Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman claimed Martin had attacked him without any justifiable provocation. With that being said if Zimmerman was wearing a body cameras during his claim attack by the teenage boy February 26, 2016 this would of shown rather or not Martin did actually attack him.So many thing is going in the world directly rather its public safety, the officers safety, the racial profiling, or even neighborhood safety. Cops will be more protected if wearing a video camera, just like the police ovth says you are innocent until proven guilty and the video cameras shows just that, and also more of a suspect and a victim.References13-Year-Old With a BB Gun Is tornado and Killed by Police in Columbus, Ohio. Daily Intelligencer, 15 Sept. 2016. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPSsw=wu=j020902v=2.1id=GALE%7CA463581242it=rasid=cda072b43290f61613c17c1b2ebfa48b. Accessed 9 Feb. 2017.Body of evidence grows, but questions remain about police body cameras. American City County, 28 Sept. 2016. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPSsw=wu=j020902v=2.1id=GALE%7CA465071065it=rasid=950657093dd447a10f9907a85c057467. Accessed 9 Feb. 2017.Considering police body cameras. Harvard Law Review, Apr. 2015, p. 1794+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPSsw=wu=j020902v=2.1id=GALE%7CA412800618it=rasid=5a50cce41c3ebfd18f649a9ba6938064. Accessed 9 Feb. 2017.Majerol, Veronica. Should police wear body cameras? While video can tell us a lot about encounters between the police and the public, body cams also raise concerns about privacy. New York Times Upfront, 7 Sept. 2015, p. 6+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPSsw=wu=j020902v=2.1id=GALE%7CA436695119it=rasid=524ebcba9260ccc1380ec5d4a7ecd396. Accessed 9 Feb. 2017.