Wear Body Cameras
With violence to the police on the rise, many people think that having a camera strapped to the officer’s chest or glasses is a simple solution. The problem is, cameras are now being handed out faster than regulations and laws can be made to restrict the use. Police are sometimes not even helped by the footage and are mostly the ones convicted by the cameras. In fact, Representative Jeff Roorda emphasizes that, “Instead of the cameras being there to protect the officers, they get disciplined for the petty stuff constantly—for violating the uniform code, or rolling through a stop sign for an urgent call, or for not turning the camera on. They’re tired of the nitpicking, and that’s what the cameras have been used to do.” This highlights the
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For instance, it has been proven that cameras can not see in your peripheral vision. Dr. Bill Lewinski points out that, “A body camera photographs a broad scene, but it can’t document where within a scene you are looking at any given instant. If you glance away from where the camera is concentrating, you may not see action within the camera frame that appears to be occurring right before your eyes.” In other words, Lewinski believes that when someone is analyzing the video, they have to keep in mind that they might be looking somewhere else in the scene and not where the camera is pointed. However, analysts assume that the officer is looking at the whole scene constantly and not at one direct point, leading them to think that the officers saw something that could only be seen on video. Cameras also can not capture the intensity of a high adrenaline situation. For example, a muzzle flash or glint off a knife will automatically raise the victim’s heart rate and put them on alert, but those little implications of violence will not show up on the video when it is assessed. Someone analyzing the video will see things as much less of a threat than the person in the life or death seaming situation. Furthermore, cameras record at a much higher frame per second than the human eye translates the
For instance, it has been proven that cameras can not see in your peripheral vision. Dr. Bill Lewinski points out that, “A body camera photographs a broad scene, but it can’t document where within a scene you are looking at any given instant. If you glance away from where the camera is concentrating, you may not see action within the camera frame that appears to be occurring right before your eyes.” In other words, Lewinski believes that when someone is analyzing the video, they have to keep in mind that they might be looking somewhere else in the scene and not where the camera is pointed. However, analysts assume that the officer is looking at the whole scene constantly and not at one direct point, leading them to think that the officers saw something that could only be seen on video. Cameras also can not capture the intensity of a high adrenaline situation. For example, a muzzle flash or glint off a knife will automatically raise the victim’s heart rate and put them on alert, but those little implications of violence will not show up on the video when it is assessed. Someone analyzing the video will see things as much less of a threat than the person in the life or death seaming situation. Furthermore, cameras record at a much higher frame per second than the human eye translates the