Body Camera Case Study

So, on the basis of the video evidence, it is quite clear that the New York police were responsible for the death of Eric Garner; that they used excessive force relative to the magnitude of the situation at hand; and that they failed to take Garner's own pleas with adequate seriousness. The result was what, conceptually, could only be called a homicide. This is the conclusion that was reached by an official medical examiner. The seriousness of the incident is clearly exacerbated by the fact that on the basis of Garner saying that he could not breathe, the police should have known that they were killing him.

In this article, the author discusses the controversy about police officers equipping body cameras throughout the UT campus. The author explains the process to authorize and use the body cameras by the University of Texas Police Department since the wanted to feel completely safe when it comes to the department. The author stated, “The cost and the difficulty is about managing that information and ensuring that information is secure and will withstand the scrutiny of a court in the case that we need to use it for evidence” (par. 5). My method for finding this source was searching for keyword such as police, body-cameras, Austin, and local. First, I searched through the database named Nexus Lexus which seemed difficult to find articles related to my area, this led me to search on a database

Over the years there have been a large number of police brutality incidences reported in the United States. Unfortunately, there have been a large number of cases where the law enforcement officers have been at fault, but in turn, there have also been cases where the law enforcement officers have been falsely accused. In order to increase the public’s faith and trust in law enforcement, footage needs to be made available to, not only the press, but also the public eye with body cameras. Not only will these body cameras help prevent violence, but it will also show positive footage of good working law enforcement officers, and also hold law enforcement officers liable for their unjustified actions by being recorded.

First of all, Encinia should have never asked Bland to step out of her car. Although he had every legal right to order her to exit her car, and her refusal to extinguish her cigarette was disrespectful, it was no reason to order her out of her vehicle. One of the biggest issues raised in this altercation is the fact that Officer Encinia threatened physical harm to Bland if she did not exit the vehicle right then. He even pulled his Taser on her and threatened to “light her up”, which is unethical no matter which way you look at it. She had every right to be informed of why she was being arrested and he would not tell her, only kept ordering her out of the car and threatening her. As I stated above, Officer Encinia was the only one visible through most of the video, so it is difficult to know whether he did in fact use force and throw her on the ground, whether she did kick him, and all of the he said-she said from the video. He did, however, use too much force in his attempt to detain Bland. She is a tiny woman and there was no need in him using so much physical force and threatening her with extensive bodily harm in order to detain her. When Encinia is giving his statement, he tells officials that he spoke to Bland in a calm manner and tried to calm her down and she continued to become more irate, and as we can clearly see, he was not speaking to her in a calm manner. He also states that he had informed Bland that she was under arrest upon the arrival of the other officer onto the scene. He claims that, at that point, he told her to stop resisting and that she was under arrest. As we can hear from the beginning of the altercation, she tells him that she is not under arrest so she does not have to get out of her vehicle, at which point, he informs her that she is under arrest and refuses to tell

While on patrol, I was parked in the entrance to Mansard's plaza, facing E Ridge Rd, monitoring traffic. A female in a silver pickup truck pulled into the lot and flagged me down. The female pointed towards a white and maroon Corvette traveling east on Ridge Rd and stated that she believes the driver may be intoxicated. I immediately pulled onto Ridge Rd and got behind the Corvette. As I was following the Corvette east on Ridge, another vehicle with a male driver pulled up to the side of me and shouted out the window, "That guy is drunk". I then observed the Corvette to weave from the outside lane to the center lane, without signaling. The vehicle then abruptly swerved back into the outside lane, without signaling. The vehicle then came to

Witnesses at the crime scene said both that Brown had charged the Wilson in the car, and also said that Brown was never at all in the car. Witnesses described Browns movements in both two different ways again. The first way was that Brown charged Officer Wilson, and that was when Officer Wilson shot at him. The other way that was described was Brown did not charge at all and at one point had his hands in the air. The reason I bring up this case is because if Officer Wilson would have been wearing a body mounted camera, the jury would have been able to see what Browns movements were and also if Brown did indeed attack Wilson in the officer 's car. This evidence may or may not have changed the outcome of the case, and could have saved a young mans life.

caught on tape. Even though this was only one example it is not the only incident where police

Over the past year there have been many situations between police officers and civilians that we don’t exactly know what happened because it someone’s word over another. In August 2014, an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Some witnesses confirmed the police officer’s claim that he shot the teenager under self defense. While others claimed that the victim posed no threat to the officer and that the shooting was uncalled for. The result of this was that the police officer wasn’t charged with a crime. If that officer had been wearing a body camera, while he was on duty, we could see with our own eyes if Michael Brown was threatening to the officer or if the shooting was unjustified. Police officers should wear body cameras while on duty because the cameras would hold police accountable to their actions, prevent violence, and would improve the public’s perspective on police officers.

On 12/12/2015 at 22:28 hours, while on DWI patrol, I observed a white male matching the description of a male who fled on an officer just prior to my pedestrian stop. I activated my overhead lights and sirens and conducted a pedestrian stop at the intersection of Good Intent and First Ave.

I was sitting in my vehicle at the police department when I observed a Dodge Ram matching the description drive past me. They were traveling at a speed of 30 MPH in a 45 MPH speed zone. When I got behind the vehicle I noticed they were traveling while touching the left center line, they also had a bunch of miscellaneous items hanging from their rear view mirror obstructing their view. I initiated my blue lights and siren to conduct a traffic stop. We pulled into the Mcdonald's parking lot off of Highway 90. Sgt. Fowler then pulled up and assisted me on my traffic stop.

At first glance, it might be compelling to correlate the cutback in use-of-force incidents and complaints adjacent to the police with the introduction of body cameras. Body-worn camera video provides quantitative data on rates and types of confrontation that may explain imbalances in use of force between individual officers. During these studies, the experimental period was approximately one year, which was held during 2012-2013. Table 3: use of force, citizens’ complaints, and police public raw figures exhibit group assignment experimental shifts or control shifts was the independent variable, while the number of use of force incidents and the number of citizens’ complaints was used as the dependent variable. The table provides information

Present day America: Ferguson, Missouri; establishments are being burned, “riots” are encompassing all surrounding areas, and the media is ablaze with “Black lives matter too” propaganda. All of the following was a butterfly effect of one situation: A white cop had “murdered” a black boy. “To support the autopsy said a microscopic exam found foreign matter, consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm, on the tissue of Brown’s thumb wound” (Barajas, “What”). Does this not prove that officer, Darren Wilson, was in fact wrestling with the assailant at one point in the occurrence? Given our justice system, Darren Wilson, was found acquitted of the crime of manslaughter, although, many believe that this is an act of the government protecting another one of its employees. Could this crisis have been adverted if all police departments wore cameras while on the job? Most likely, although that was not available or policy given this incident. There is absolutely no reason for the

What happens when there isn’t enough evidence to prove someone guilty, or when an officer isn’t taking responsibility for his or her actions? There are thousands of videos seen all over the internet and talked about on the radio about violence between an officer and another individual. Would the story of what really happened be different if the video was taken by a body camera, from a different angle compared to the one posted all over Facebook taken by an innocent bystander. With the potential that these body cameras could prevent violence, hold accountability and provide evidence, they also put restrictions on the privacy of civilians, create expenses and cause technical issues that could affect the outcome of the footage being recorded.

On a Saturday night in Ferguson, Missouri a 18-year-old named Michael Brown was walking home from stealing from the store and police officer named darren wilson was sent the description of michael brown and Dorian Johnson. Wilson backed up his police car in front of them to block them off their path then a confrontation happened between Brown and Wilson struggling through the window of the police vehicle. Then, Brown walked away from the car but turned around to face to car and walked back toward it. As he approached the car again Wilson shot at Brown several different times almost all in the front of him. Wilson shot twelve times at Brown and the last shot was most likely was the fatal shot. Brown was unarmed. There had been disputes about whether or not brown was reaching for wilson 's gun while the altercations happened through the car door window and the direction of brown was facing when he was shot. After months of riots in Ferguson over Brown’s seemingly unfair death, Officer Wilson was not indicted by a grand jury. This decision only cause more uproar and a national conversation about police brutality and racism. If Wilson had been wearing a body camera, all of this hurt, distrust and chaos could have avoided. Even though some people believe that camera are ineffective, police officers should wear body cameras while on duty because it creates a safer environment, it 's safer for the police officers and it gives evidence to hold

The ability to review the totality of the evidence of an incident after it has occurred allows individuals to formulate fully informed decisions. Subsequently, when police officers deal with situations throughout their shift, they are often forced to make a hasty decision without the benefit of all the information. Hence, the majority of law enforcement decisions are without the benefit of incomplete information, yet overall their decisions are just and fair. Moreover, law enforcement is strongly encouraged to wear body-worn cameras at every event, which everyone uses to judge whether their choices are right or wrong. Personal experience has shown that the camera footage of the majority of the videos I review provides only a portion of what truly occurred at the