{"id":1012,"date":"2015-08-04T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T05:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2015-08-04T14:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T19:54:31","slug":"police-body-camera-captures-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/2015\/08\/04\/police-body-camera-captures-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Body Camera Captures the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feeney, Matthew. \u201cDuBose Killing Highlights Importance of Police Body Cameras\u201d www.cato.org<\/a>. Cato Institute, <\/em>29 July 2015. Web. 3 August 2015.<\/p>\n

The controversy I am discussing is the use of body cameras on police uniforms. This article relates to my first primary source because it enhances a premium recent example of camera use on officers. The first article I used explains reasons why police officers should wear cameras. This article follows the discussion, but focuses on a very specific incident that further glorifies the push for all police officer\u2019s to wear body cameras. This article teaches me that the speaker is very informative about the event and the overall controversy. The source also effectively explains in detail the reasoning behind the advantage of the use of cameras to an audience that cares for overall safety, security, and justice. The article wants to truly make the audience understand the importance of camera use on officers.<\/p>\n

Author of this article, Matthew Feeney, is credible due to his writing which references recent and relevant information such as statements from local authority figures in Hamilton County, in which the incident occurred. Feeney is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, but worked at Reason<\/em> magazine as assistant editor before coming to Cato. He has also worked for The American Con<\/em>servative, the Liberal Democrats, and the Institute of Economic Affairs. The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace. Cato is believed to be a trusted source due to its scholars and analysts conducting independent nonpartisan research on a wide range of policy issues for the public. This article also presents element\u2019s that indicate careful research such as the placed evidence of a NBC NEWS video that shows the officer involved in the incident body cam footage.<\/p>\n

Feeney begins the article with the backstory of the University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing shooting and killing 43-year-old Samuel DuBose on July 19th<\/sup> during a traffic stop. Stating that Tensing will face murder and manslaughter charges, Feeney provides statements from Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters. Deters calls the killing \u201csenseless\u201d and openly states \u201cthe body camera footage of the killing was invaluable. Without it, many would probably have believed Tensing\u2019s erroneous account of the incident.\u201d Referring to the knowledge of Tensing creating lies that he was dragged by DuBose\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n

Feeney then states \u201cDuBose\u2019s death demonstrates once again that body camera are not police misconduct stoppers.\u201d Further explaining this statement, Feeney reinstates the fact the Tensing knew his body camera was on, but ultimately continued to shoot the unarmed man in the head over a simple missing license plate dispute. Nonetheless, the incident does provide how body camera footage can be useful to officials investigating allegations of police misconduct.<\/p>\n

Statements from Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffery Blackwell are then introduced by Feeney. Blackwell states that technology that highlights incidents of police misconduct must be welcomed by advocates of accountability and transparency in law enforcement. Deters then adds, \u201cthe body camera led to Tensing\u2019s murder indictment\u201d as his conclusion.<\/p>\n

Overall, Feeney results to statements from Blackwell and Deters to set motion his claim that police officers should wear body cameras. Because, as Feeney states, \u201cif it weren\u2019t for the body cam footage, Tensing will still be employed as a Cincinnati police officer rather than being behind bars.\u201d Concluding that in the case of Dubose\u2019s killing, a camera can be instrumental in investigating police misconduct and getting dangerous officers off the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feeney, Matthew. \u201cDuBose Killing Highlights Importance of Police Body Cameras\u201d www.cato.org. Cato Institute, 29 July 2015. Web. 3 August 2015. The controversy I am discussing is the use of body cameras on police uniforms. This article relates to my first … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rs-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}