Discuss the opportunities and limitations of body cameras for police.
What will be an ideal response?
Most fatal police shootings do not involve body cameras. The Washington Post data indicate that since 2015, 11% of police shootings are recorded by a body camera. With rising interest in this topic, many states and jurisdictions are moving toward requiring law enforcement body cameras, but implementing this is challenging. On the plus side is that the public is overwhelmingly in favor of body cameras to both exonerate officers and to protect members of the public. And while several states and the federal government have provided resources to defray associated costs of these cameras, other obstacles exist. A major hurdle in many locations is ascertaining whether the public and media should have access to police video. In short, there is tension between balancing the privacy of those recorded and transparency.
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