Filling the accountability gap: principles and practices for implementing body cameras for law enforcement
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| author | Muggah, Robert Badran, Emile Siqueira, Bruno Kosslyn, Justin |
| author_facet | Muggah, Robert Badran, Emile Siqueira, Bruno Kosslyn, Justin |
| contents | <p>New technologies are revolutionizing the way governments provide services, including law enforcement. Around the world, police departments are investing in predictive analytics, digital forensics, data mining systems and crime mapping platforms to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their work. They are also experimenting with mobile technologies to strengthen communication and outreach. One such device – on-officer recording systems, or body-worn cameras (BWC) – is catching on. Police are experimenting with “cop cams” in dozens of cities across North America and Western Europe while sparking debate and some controversy in the process. There are also small-scale pilots using open source and mobile phone-operated BWCs in Latin America and South Africa. There is growing awareness of their effectiveness.1 The introduction of BWCs has the potential to transform policing. If implemented with appropriate checks and balances, BWCs can potentially improve oversight over police officers and strengthen their accountability to citizens. Many civil liberties groups are already advocating for cameras due to their ability to check the abuse of power by police while also helping to protect them (and citizens) against false accusations.2 What is more, cumulative data harvested by such devices can improve the targeting of crime prevention efforts as well as overall law enforcement performance. With safeguards in place, citizens, too, will benefit from these technologies since the use of cameras changes the nature of police-civilian interaction, most often for the better.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Filling the accountability gap: principles and practices for implementing body cameras for law enforcement Muggah, Robert Badran, Emile Siqueira, Bruno Kosslyn, Justin Body Cameras Police Accountability Data Management Citizen Privacy Surveillance Law Enforcement Public Access Civil Liberties Video Retention <p>New technologies are revolutionizing the way governments provide services, including law enforcement. Around the world, police departments are investing in predictive analytics, digital forensics, data mining systems and crime mapping platforms to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their work. They are also experimenting with mobile technologies to strengthen communication and outreach. One such device – on-officer recording systems, or body-worn cameras (BWC) – is catching on. Police are experimenting with “cop cams” in dozens of cities across North America and Western Europe while sparking debate and some controversy in the process. There are also small-scale pilots using open source and mobile phone-operated BWCs in Latin America and South Africa. There is growing awareness of their effectiveness.1 The introduction of BWCs has the potential to transform policing. If implemented with appropriate checks and balances, BWCs can potentially improve oversight over police officers and strengthen their accountability to citizens. Many civil liberties groups are already advocating for cameras due to their ability to check the abuse of power by police while also helping to protect them (and citizens) against false accusations.2 What is more, cumulative data harvested by such devices can improve the targeting of crime prevention efforts as well as overall law enforcement performance. With safeguards in place, citizens, too, will benefit from these technologies since the use of cameras changes the nature of police-civilian interaction, most often for the better.</p> |
| title | Filling the accountability gap: principles and practices for implementing body cameras for law enforcement |
| topic | Body Cameras Police Accountability Data Management Citizen Privacy Surveillance Law Enforcement Public Access Civil Liberties Video Retention |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15863087 |