Police body cameras have the potential to make private details about people’s lives, including some of the most stressful experiences of their lives, public and easily accessible online
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Recording and bearing witness to a Black person’s death from police violence is in itself traumatizing.
As CCTV cameras become more widespread, it’s becoming more difficult for people to protect their locational privacy in public.
A scholar of visual culture sees a transition happening online as the alt-right reinterprets images of police shootings to push back against the gains made by Black Lives Matter.
With citizens filming police, and police recording public encounters, the key to the truth is establishing a clear timeline of events.
The mere presence or absence of a camera does not deter violent behavior. We know this through decades of research on CCTV demonstrating that video monitoring has little to no effect on violent crime and…
Michael Brown’s recent shooting death by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson illustrates the pressing importance of digitally documenting police activity, while Eric Garner’s case illustrates the limits…
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Associate Professor of Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Criminology, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Jerry Lee Fellow in Experimental Criminology and Lecturer in Evidence Based Policing, University of Cambridge
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Sessional Instructor, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor of Media Law and Policy, University of Oregon