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Much interest in the technology of the body cameras comes from a growing problem that the United States has been having a major problem with police violence. Though some might argue that the wearing of body cameras violate privacy, in fact the use of the cameras will minimize violence, show accountability, and a human side of policing. These body cameras would help serve by providing video evidence that can be referenced and use anytime allegations are made against police officers and criminals alike. The use of these body cameras are somewhat in the evaluation and study stages, but they are quickly becoming the standard in some police departments across the United States. These cameras would not only serve to provide video evidence, but it provide accountability. The ideal policy for the cams is that they stay on and continue recording throughout police officers shifts, which would help eliminate any possibility of doing something that would not be used as evidence later on and help them evade the recording of abuse committed while on duty.

A man walks down a road, and is confronted by a police officer wearing a body worn camera. The man and the officer exchange words, and soon after a physical altercation ensues. According to the man’s statement, the officer was out of line, assaulted him, and his privacy was violated by the use of the camera. The officer’s statement, however, said that he was trying to question the man about being intoxicated and the usage of vulgar language, when the subject then began threatening him and ultimately began the attack on him; the officer continued to state he used the minimum amount of force necessary to minimize the threat. The man was ultimately convicted by the video evidence. Police officers feel that wearing body worn cameras will provide all the necessary evidence in any given situation, and protect them from public scrutiny, while the public believes that their privacy is being violated, and at too high of a financial cost. Police officers and public citizens must each concede to find the truth.

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The history of police use-of-force is rooted to the rising concerns of citizens world-wide. Power by police has consequently developed hatred, unnecessary use of force, and tarnish relationships with the community. Complaints against the police derives from police misconduct, which creates a burden socially and economically. Recently body worn cameras by police has received substantial amount of media coverage. Body worn cameras are meant to reduce complaints, excessive use of force, and improving evidence capture by the police.

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

With the rise of anti-police groups and police surveillance groups, like one called copwatch, the need for police accountability is at an all time high. The best way to hold these officers accountable is through mandated body cameras. Seeing a video of a police officer tackling someone can be very one-sided. It is almost like reading tone into a text; you create what one wants to hear. When someone wants to “hear” that a police officer was attacking a citizen, then that is how they are going to tell someone when they show the video. With body cameras, viewers get to see the whole story and the whole conversation occur. In an excerpt from “Through The Looking Glass House” the author talks about the way people perceive things and

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One technological improvement in law enforcement that makes the job more effective/efficient is body cameras. These cameras capture events and interactions that take place between and among suspects, victims, and officers. According to page 513, body cameras can be used to resolve disputes and build trust with the community by preserving a record of critical events. This technology is used by the police for two purposes. One purpose is it used to increase police accountability. The second purpose is it has the potential to increase the effectiveness of the police response to crime. This technology can make the job more effective because now with these cameras there can at least be a little more evidence. Another thing is this technology may

The issue of wearing body camera’s with police officers in the United States is currently a controversial topic and requires further analysis. In current events, such as the killings of minority men Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by the police; have the public up in arms. Incidents such as these only drive the debate more and more on why police officers should be required to wear body cameras. Many police officers however do not feel they need to wear them and feel it might impair their ability to do their job efficiently. The public on the other hand wants transparency when it comes to the police and wearing body cameras is one means of doing so. In the following

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By the 1950’s, Canon attained the title of leading producer of cameras in Japan. Since that time, Canon has made it a point to expand and diversify their company as much as possible. They are able to accomplish this primarily through a strong Research and Development program. Through this program, Canon has explored many different technologies such as home electronics and x-ray

This paper presents “Pervasive Computing in Smart Cameras” depicting its various applications and techniques used in those applications. Pervasive Computing is an outrageously growing trend in everyday embedded microprocessor objects that helps to communicate information between these objects. Pervasive computing devices are connected entirely and are available relentlessly. Smart cameras are embedded systems that perform involved video content study and only account detected events as a replacement for permanently streaming videos. Visual sensor networks (VSNs) are also a type of Pervasive networks since cameras are omnipresent by being embedded into everyday life objects such as a smartphone. VSNs aim at integrating smart cameras using pervasive computing with wireless sensor networks. Due to rapid changes in the VSN’s environment, a dynamic and online reconfiguration is highly needed. we introduce and evaluate a fast and distributed resource-aware reconfiguration algorithm. Our approach is based on simple optimization primitives to find good approximations and to keep the required data transfer in the VSN small. We analyze the communication complexity and compare the algorithm with a centralized configuration approach based on several scenarios with different complexity. Camera sensors have higher requirements concerning communication bandwidth and computing power than those typically used in wireless sensor network applications. Accordingly, power management is

This report presents “Pervasive Computing in Smart Cameras” depicting its various applications and algorithms along with the techniques used in those applications. Pervasive Computing is an outrageously growing trend in everyday embedded microprocessor objects that helps to communicate information between these objects. Pervasive computing devices are connected entirely and are available relentlessly. Smart cameras are embedded systems that perform involved video content study and only account detected events as a replacement for permanently streaming videos. Visual sensor networks (VSNs) are also a type of Pervasive networks since cameras are omnipresent by being embedded into everyday life objects such as a smartphone. VSNs aim at integrating smart cameras using pervasive computing with wireless sensor networks. Due to rapid changes in the VSN’s environment, a dynamic online reconfiguration is highly needed. we introduce and evaluate a fast and distributed resource-aware Distributed algorithm. Our approach is based on simple optimization primitives to find good approximations and to minimize the required data transfer in the VSN. We analyze the communication complexity and compare the algorithm with a approach based on several scenarios with different complexity. Camera sensors have higher requirements concerning communication bandwidth and computing power than those typically used in wireless sensor network applications. Accordingly, power management is