Body Cameras Argument Analysis

There have been many complaints about if body cameras on police officers will work or not. There are two people that have different opinions that other people that think body cameras will stop police brutality against police officers. William N. Grigg, and Joshua Krause these people think body cameras on police officers will not work, and will not stop or decrease the violence from police officers. Grigg’s argument is Their arguments are that the officers from the SDPD forgot to turn on their body cameras while on duty. A crime that happened in April, Officer Neal Browder fatally shot a 31-year-old man named Fridoon Zalbeg Rawshannehad, who had been suspected of carrying a knife. After the shooting, no weapon was found, although Rawshannehad was carrying what has been described as “a shiny looking object.”(San Diego Cops
Keep Forgetting to Turn Their Body Cameras On Before Killing People - Counter Current News." Counter Current News. N.p., 05 Nov. 2015. Web. 11 Nov. 2015). his argument is that the camera never caught anything or didn’t record the arrest and later on never found a weapon,but found what was a shiny looking object. Another person that opposes body cameras on police officers is Lauren C. Williams. Williams Doesn’t believe that body cameras will not stop police brutality or stop the violence, and even if it decreases the violence it will not create legal action against the police themselves and the police department. For example, Lauren C.
Williams says body cameras don’t always cause legal action between the victim and the officer being accused. This solution is invalid or ineffective because having body cameras on their officers will have more evidence on the officer doing violence on that person or civilian.(Why Body Cameras Alone Won’t Solve Our Police Abuse Problem."ThinkProgress Why Body Cameras Alone Won't Solve Our Police Abuse Problem Comments. N.p., 19 Aug. 2014. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.). This argument has been called invalid for many reasons, but William thinks this will work and he has a valid argument, but he doesn’t have facts that can back that statement up,so that's why his argument is invalid. The counter argument to this argument is that body cameras will reduce the violence and will decrease the complaints about police getting physical with the civilians. For example, “When the city of Rialto California equipped their police officers with body cams, the use of force by police was reduced by 60 percent, and the number of complaints against the department dropped by 88 percent”(Featured Sponsors." The Daily Sheeple. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.).
The next person that opposes the body cameras on police officers that will stop police brutality is Joshua Krause. Krause’s argument is that the body cameras on the officer will either malfunction or get lost or the cameras on the officer won’t even be activated or turned while the altercation is going on. For example, “So what about the footage found on the body cameras that those cops were wearing? Nobody knows. Either there was a malfunction in all three cameras or they weren’t turned on. The dash cam footage from the squad cars is also missing”( Featured Sponsors." The Daily Sheeple. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2015). Krause’s argument is invalid because body cameras that have a malfunctions the recording or data that was on that camera will never get erased it will always be there, and the camera will never get lost the only way that the body camera on the police officer will get lost is if the officer never turns it into the captain of the department. For example, The opposing solution is that the body cameras will either get lost, have a malfunction, or the officer will not even turn on the camera when on duty. This solution is invalid and ineffective because when cameras have malfunctions they don’t get lost or the recording doesn’t get deleted. There has been evidence that if the department is corrupt then their will be no technology that will stop the officer from committing a crime. For example, “ If the department is corrupt, then no amount of technology is going to change that”.( Featured Sponsors." The Daily Sheeple. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2015). The counter argument is that there is evidence that the body camera’s on the police officers will stop police brutality and stop or minimize the violence and minimize the complaints that people have against the department. For example, Krause states ”When the city of Rialto California equipped their police officers with body cams, the use of force by police was reduced by 60 percent, and the number of complaints against the department dropped by 88 percent”( Featured Sponsors." The Daily Sheeple. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2015). These two people oppose body cameras on the police officers. These two both have logical arguments, But their arguments are falsely stated because they don’t have evidence to back up their claim or claims, but they do have an argument but they need evidence to back up their argument.