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Privacy, Public Disclosure, Police Body Cameras: Policy Splits, Mary D. Fan
Privacy, Public Disclosure, Police Body Cameras: Policy Splits, Mary D. Fan
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When you call the police for help—or someone calls the police on you—do you bear the risk that your worst moments will be posted on YouTube for public viewing? Police officers enter some of the most intimate incidences of our lives—after an assault, when we are drunk and disorderly, when someone we love dies in an accident, when we are distraught, enraged, fighting, and more. As police officers around the nation begin wearing body cameras in response to calls for greater transparency, communities are wrestling with how to balance privacy with public disclosure.
This Article sheds light on the balances …
Police Stories, Helen A. Anderson
Police Stories, Helen A. Anderson
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As lawyers and judges know, the facts, and the stories created with those facts, make the law: “[A] case well stated is more than half argued.” The police narrative is one of the most common narratives in legal writing, simply because there are so many criminal cases, as well as numerous civil cases, involving police. For the most part, these narratives tell the familiar story of the hardworking, careful police officer in a challenging situation with dangerous criminals.
These narratives do much of the work of an appellate argument, just as Chief Justice Robert’s story about Officer Devlin makes the …