Body Cameras Invasion Of Privacy

The invasion of an individual’s privacy through body cameras has become the highlight of new and inventive techniques within the field of policing. People have come to the circumstance that everything they do or say within feet away from an officer may cause great consequences. This sense of paranoia has established the concept of personal video surveillance taken by police officers when in contact with citizens. The evolution of policing has grasped the attention of many. It has created some positive and negative perceptions into the dimension that divides policing and the society. I, however stand on the line of whether or not to believe body cameras are at all an invasion of privacy. With the influence taken by technology, law enforcement

If an agent of the police obtains a warrant to issue at a private home, then the consideration is part of an investigation and it must aim to immediate and legal action. Officers use cameras in terms of their own legal protection as well. Police footage is in fact not public and only used for court testimony, unless however these actions are videotaped by a second source and uploaded on social media for all to see. Cameras do not function so that they invade privacy, cameras are placed so that people are brought to justice. Again, it may depend on the circumstances, if the cameras are directed at someone’s home, a proper warrant is at issue, but if the camera is on public grounds there is no consideration of privacy

This aims to prove that the government is providing the police with extensive use of power in order to benefit themselves. This balance within the police force creates a divide between the police and the public. Today people regard the police as the enemy rather than a form of safety and view body held cameras as extensive use of power and force. This is considered the end of proper freedom of speech. Because everything you say or do is held accountable, people now become paranoid that any form of action taken can lead to an arrest. The way the laws are arbitrarily enforced question the actuality of committing a crime versus the “suspicion” of committing a crime. People should not fear the use of the law when they go about their lives, in no way must a free person live this way. Security cameras create an illusion of safety, how may someone feel safe while being watched by an unknown source? This only invades one’s behaviour, the use of cameras creates an illusion known as the Panopticon, an institutional design created by Jeremy Bentham. This is a concept where a single watchman observes all the inmates without the inmates knowing whether they are being watched. Despite it not being possible for the single watchman to view all at once, the inmates must control their behaviour as though they are being