The Pros And Cons Of Body Cameras

Body cameras for me personally is not an issue. I was pulled over by a police officer with a body camera recently. It happened at a McDonalds around 11’o clock at night in my hometown Reading, PA. As I was leaving the drive thru and making a left out of McDonalds I hear and see red and blue lights behind me. I pull over and shortly he comes over and introduces himself and his body camera. Then he explained why he had pulled me over. I ran a light that was above me at the exit over McDonalds drive thru. He then went through the process to give me a ticket. I was okay with him video recording me as long as he didn’t show my parents because I really didn’t want him to. In that situation I don’t know his intentions or even his input on the recent police brutality cases but I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel a little safer with the body camera on. With police brutality increasing finding a solution is vital. Therefore police departments are trying to find solutions and body cameras is one of them. Even though privacy will be ruined, body cameras worn on police officers are one of the solutions to police brutality. Body cameras which are worn by police officers capture all activity around them within a radius of course. Therefore privacy is an issue that people might see as a problem with body …show more content…
There really isn’t any better solution than this. Assisting with all cases these body cameras would help bring down crime. Lately there has been a recent rise with crime especially police brutality. This is why police departments nationwide are trying to get body cameras. To reduce crime rates and violence and to help with cases in the courtroom. So body cameras are already a movement going nationwide and I think it should continue. The pros really outweigh the cons for body cameras. As long as it helps on reducing crime and police brutality in this country with a small amount of cons it should