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Policing The Admissibility Of Body Camera Evidence, Jeffrey Bellin, Shevarma Pemberton
Policing The Admissibility Of Body Camera Evidence, Jeffrey Bellin, Shevarma Pemberton
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Body cameras are sweeping the nation and becoming, along with the badge and gun, standard issue for police officers. These cameras are intended to ensure accountability for abusive police officers. But, if history is any guide, the videos they produce will more commonly be used to prosecute civilians than to document abuse. Further, knowing that the footage will be available as evidence, police officers have an incentive to narrate body camera videos with descriptive oral statements that support a later prosecution. Captured on an official record that exclusively documents the police officer’s perspective, these statements—for example, “he just threw something …
Technology Comes To The Courtroom, And . . ., Fredric I. Lederer
Technology Comes To The Courtroom, And . . ., Fredric I. Lederer
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