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Footage Access and Effects on the Black Community-

Wikipedia contributors. (2023, October 30). Police body camera. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_body_camera#Civilian_perceptions

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"In policing equipment, a police body camera or 'wearable camera', also known as body worn video (BWV), 'body-worn camera' (BWC), or body camera, is a wearable audio, video, or photographic recording system used by police to record events in which law enforcement officers are involved, from the perspective of the officer wearing it. They are typically worn on the torso of the body, pinned on the officer's uniform. Police body cameras are often similar to body cameras used by civilians, firefighters, or the military, but are designed to address specific requirements related to law enforcement. Body cameras were first worn by police in the United Kingdom in 2005, and have since been adopted by numerous police departments and forces worldwide."

Police body camera

The lead of this article provides a very brief overview of the definition and background of police body cameras. For my topic, the effects of footage access on the Black community, would need to be included under the section, Footage Access. There it no need to add this to the Lead because it isn't going specially into detail or referencing anything explicitly discussed in article. Although, this is technically an issue with in Wikipedia standards, the basic overview is enough to get readers comfortable before they dive deeper into reading.

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 Body Camera Footage and the Black Community 

Body camera footage has become more visible with in the past few years due to media coverage. A common theme presented within the videos are the harsh linguistic approaches used by law enforcement. It is written that, "Indeed, we find that white community members are 57% more likely to hear an officer say one of the most respectful utterances our dataset, whereas black community members are 61% more likely to hear an officer say one of the least respectful utterances our dataset. (Here we define the top 10% of utterances to bemost respectful and the bottom 10% to be least respectful." Statistics also demonstrate, on top of the lingustisic concerns, "...African Americans are 3 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement, 1.3 times more likely to be unarmed (Figure 4), less likely to be threatening someone when killed, and 5 times more likely to be fatally shot (Mapping Police Violence, 2021; Scott et al., 2017)." The high numbers of negative encounters within the African American communtiy creates a more tense relationship with law enforcement. Personal recollection of African American individuals seeing video footage from police stoppages back their distrusted relationship. A twenty-five year old school Black school teacher reflects on her feelings towards police violence. She mentioned a situation she watched in which, "There was a man who got shot by the police in Minnesota,” she started, “and his girlfriend recorded a video of the shooting. In the video, the police officer is literally shaking before he shoots the man. And the man in the car wasn’t even doing anything that was endangering the cop. The police officer was still afraid.” Seeing raw footage of police brutality premotes and supports the already negative concepts of police acivity towards those of color.