To fulfill the Internal Affairs certification process, I will be answering Essay Topic number 2, “What do you believe the future of Body Worn Cameras will be in Law Enforcement?” In answering this question I will focus my response to [...]
Body cameras utilize by police officers have been available to police departments worldwide since 2005 but have not become popular in the United States until 2014. Since 2014, there has been a push for police departments across the nation to [...]
Most of my twenty some years in law enforcement were spent in the narcotics division. In this sector, your author was assigned to conduct high-risk warrants, search warrants and “buy busts,” which is the task of boxing in a vehicle [...]
Who would have thought Body Worn Cameras would be the standard in the everyday changes to the Law Enforcement profession? From body mounted cameras to weapon mounted systems, the bar is already set; most law enforcement agencies have deployed or [...]
I started my Police career with the Vernon Police Department in October of 1999, 22 years ago last month. When I started as a patrolman, video technology utilized by patrol officers was only something you heard about. Being a rural [...]
In 1829, Sir Robert Peel established the London Metropolitan Police Force. While the advent of this police force is nearly two centuries old, Sir Robert Peel’s nine (9) policing principles still apply to law enforcement today. These set of progressive [...]
The Macomb County Sheriff’s Office, located in Macomb County Michigan, uses the Watch Guard camera system for both road patrol and jail operations. In addition to viewing audio/video footage of an incident we can also access an option called record [...]
The Future of Body Worn Cameras in Law Enforcement Currently there are only seven states, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Carolina, that mandate statewide use of body worn cameras by law enforcement officers. Certainly, my [...]
For decades activist groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have been advocating for a higher transparency within the profession of Law Enforcement and its agencies. To [...]
When I started in law enforcement back in 1999, my department did not have in-car cameras, much less body-worn cameras. Shortly after, in about 2003, the in-car camera systems began appearing in our patrol cars. I remember hearing officers complain [...]