Ethical Law Enforcement Issues

Body cameras on law enforcement officers has become a common practice for many organizations in the past few years. Much of this attention is due in part to the many issues between police and the community. Most of the attention is placed on issues that help to bring in new ideas where technology is used to counter or act on claims of neglect between police and community. Changes in technology and the lack of change in laws for the use of technology have produced serious issues between what is and is not right in the forms of surveillance for law enforcement. Although surveillance has become a common practice in the sense of safety and security, it has progressed over the past few years. Now seen as a common and widely used practice, this brings …show more content…
These incidents deal with the overall transparency of police departments as a public organization. This becomes an ethical issue for many departments as they investigate claims following interactions between police and the public. The ethical issue originates from the departments mission of protecting its officers, or to the protection of the public interest, trust and security. However, the issue in many metropolitan communities is the focus of race and the make-up of many law enforcement organizations based on the population make-up for the communities to which they protect. Although, this could be looked upon as just another excuse, this has been the focus on many of these publicized issues over the past few …show more content…
According to the article Police Body Cameras in Missouri: Good or Bad Policy? There are a few instances where cameras would become a major issue, mainly focusing on privacy issues (Witherspoon, 2014). One of the first examples is domestic violence cases and the exposure that videos could cause significant further harm to the victim and the case in general. A secondary example is on the focus of rape cases and the extreme sensitivity of these