Should officers with body-worn cameras be required to announce they are wearing the devices?
First, compose a minimum of 100 words in response to the questions. Second, save the work to your hard drive, and then, post your response here in Canvas. Next, read the responses provided by your classmates and compose a 100-word minimum critical response to 1 classmate’s post. ( I will provide you the response of one of the classmates after you are done with my answer because it would be visible right after I post my answer)
Several police departments across the US are requiring that police officers utilize body-worn cameras. In-car cameras came into regular use and are now fairly common in modern law enforcement agencies. Thus, body cameras are the next logical step because officers routinely step out of view of their in-car cameras.
The purpose of the body-worn camera is to record and document police-citizen encounters. At first glance, this may seem advantageous for both parties, but with closer inspection, there is much more to this story. The disadvantages could outweigh the advantages.
First, provide 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of police body-worn cameras. Then answer: Should officers with body-worn cameras be required to announce they are wearing the devices? Under what circumstances should body-worn cameras be on and off?
Finally, if you pull additional information from a source (internet, book, article, journal article) to develop your response, please be sure to cite it appropriately in APA format. Below is an example to follow for a journal article. This includes the authors’ names, year of publication, title of the article, the name of the journal in italics, the volume number of the journal in italics, and the issue number in parentheses, followed by the page number range:
Journal article example:
Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (2005). A life-course view of the development of crime. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 602(1), 12-45.
Web Document or Report example:
Kaste, M. (January, 2016). California cops frustrated with “Catch-and-Release” crime fighting. Retrieved from: https://www.npr.org/2016/01/22
