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Moral Panics And Body Cameras, Howard M. Wasserman
Moral Panics And Body Cameras, Howard M. Wasserman
Howard M Wasserman
This Commentary uses the lens of "moral panics" to evaluate public support for equipping law enforcement with body cameras as a response and solution to events in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014. Body cameras are a generally good policy idea. But the rhetoric surrounding them erroneously treats them as the single guaranteed solution to the problem of excessive force and police-citizen conflicts, particularly by ignoring the limitations of video evidence and the difficult questions of implementing any body camera program. In overstating the case, the rhetoric of body cameras becomes indistinguishable from rhetoric surrounding responses to past moral panics.
Epilogue: Moral Panics And Body Cameras, Howard M. Wasserman
Epilogue: Moral Panics And Body Cameras, Howard M. Wasserman
Howard M Wasserman
This brief follow-up to Moral Panics and Body Cameras comments on the weeks after that essay was published and what those events show about the efficacy of body cameras and video evidence as a response to police-public conflicts.