Watch this documentary on Cincinnati Police Department’s experience with body-worn camera and Axon Company’s perspective on their camera product.
According to this more recent Washington Post report: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/some-us-police-departments-dump-body-camera-programs-amid-high-costs/2019/01/21/991f0e66-03ad-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html
nearly half of the police department in the country have some version of the body-worn camera. Read this article in full, and pay attention to the reasons why many agencies are moving away from this tool.
Lastly, read the NYTimes article here (Links to an external site.) and follow each interactive exercise inside:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/us/police-bodycam-video.html?_r=0
Then, answer the questions:
1. What are the advantages of using the body camera?
2. After the two articles and the documentary, what are the main concerns and issues related to the use of body camera, as described by patrol officers and police chiefs? What did you learn from the interactive exercises designed by Dr. Seth W. Stoughton in the NYTimes article?
3. What is your general view on the introduction of body cameras to policing after synthesizing all these materials?