COM 213 Speaker Notes Template

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Complete this template by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information. Speaker notes for this assignment should be bulleted talking points that demonstrate your mastery of the course content and use APA style citations. Delete slides from the template as needed.

Slide 1: Presentation Title

• Cover page

Slide [2]: Law and Justice

• [Meaning of the law

• What is law? Before we get to the topic today. I would like us to understand what the law is. According to Google, the law is a system of rules which is recognized and followed and has penalties when broken. If we look at the relationship between the police and the law, the police are the enforcers of the law. The police might be enforcing the law but their main purpose is to serve and protect.

Slide [3]: Police body-worn Camera

• Let us take a look at the police body-worn cameras. As a citizen you want to feel safe and protected by the government, you want to be served by the police and know you can rely on them. As a free citizen, you want to walk past an officer and feel safe. Police officers also want to feel safe and trust the people they are protecting. Body-worn cameras; how would this have an impact on you?

Slide [4]: Police body-worn camera and brutality

• There has been an increase in the number of police brutality cases and this was one of the drivers of the need to have body-worn cameras.

• This is an issue where police brutality has been on the rise, especially in the African American community. Tyre Nichols is a recent victim of police brutality. The most recent was Tyre Nichols who died 3 days after being beaten by police officers. With these, there is a need of identifying if there is any racial discrimination within the police force according to Wright & Headley, in the article can technology work in policing?

• Reducing police brutality is one way of making sure that everyone feels safe around the police and not scared as stated by Jespersen, K, in his article Innocent bystander. When people feel safe around the police then this reduces the trust gap between the citizens and the police.

Slide [5]: Police brutality victims

• These are some of the victims of police brutality and the ones whose stories spread around the world creating the Black Lives Matter movement.

Slide [6]: George Orwell are you watching?

• If you are familiar with George Orwell and his book 1984, then this is not like a big brother. However, we know from the book how people behaved knowing they were being watched. According to white and other researchers, people knowing they are being recorded will behave better. With this then the police body-worn cameras will record everything from the police’s view as also stated by Houwing in his article police body-cams as equiveillance Tools. So, we can be able to see what the officer did, and also assist in judging cases. People will not be blamed for things they did not do.

Slide [7]: Facial recognition feature in body cams

• Having body cams with facial recognition can assist in tracking criminals who are caught by other police officers or who get in their path according to Bromberg. This will assist the police in identifying criminals and also keep the police safe. The facial recognition feature can assist with clearing mistaken identities and keep the trust of the public intact. The perfect movie to reference this is black and blue which is on Netflix and this gets interesting at the first minute. Let us play the trailer to get the idea.

Slide [8]: Conclusion

• Body-worn cameras are important in making society feel safe. The use of body-worn cameras will reduce police brutality and offer room for discipline not only for the officers but with the citizens. With the features in the body camera such as facial recognition this can also help rack criminals and also clear up mistaken identities and framed cases offering quality honest service. Not only is the use of body cameras to increase safety levels, reduce police brutality, and reduce the trust gap between the police and the citizens, but also keep everyone safe as even the officers are humans too.

Slide [9]: References

• Here is the list of references in the presentation.

• Ending with the goodbye.

Bromberg, D. E., Charbonneau, É., & Smith, A. (2020). Public support for facial recognition via police body-worn cameras: Findings from a list experiment. Government Information Quarterly, 37(1), 101415.

Houwing, L., & Ritsema van Eck, G. J. (2020). Police Bodycams as Equiveillance Tools? Reflections on the Debate in the Netherlands. Surveillance & Society, 18(2).

Jespersen, K. (2021). (Not So) Innocent Bystander: The Embodied Views of the Body Camera.

Netflix (2019). Black and Blue movie.

White, M. D., & Malm, A. (2020). Cops, cameras, and crisis: The potential and the perils of police body-worn cameras. NYU Press.

Wright, J. E., & Headley, A. M. (2021). Can technology work for policing? Citizen perceptions of police-body worn cameras. The American Review of Public Administration, 51(1), 17-27.