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  • Essay / The importance of police cameras - 1455

    He is in favor of police cameras. Indicating in his article studies and their statistical figures to demonstrate that everyone behaves better in front of the camera. Knickerbocker presents the results of a twelve-month study by the 21st Century Policing Task Force on police body cameras. This study showed that with body cameras, the need to use force and complaints against police were reduced. He believes that the increased awareness of being recorded is a factor in reducing the need for force and complaints. Knickerbocker is concerned about police wearing body cameras and writing their reports on the interaction. These agents can modify reports based on what the video content shows. Do police officers watch the video before or after the report is written, or watch it at all, is his question. His conclusion was that no, they wouldn't because other members of the public and the police had the opportunity to film the same thing.