Body-Worn Cameras: Exploring the Unintentional Consequences of Technological Advances and Ensuring a Role for Community Consultation
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BODY-WORN CAMERAS: EXPLORING THE
UNINTENTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES AND ENSURING A
ROLE FOR COMMUNITY CONSULTATION
Kami N. Chavis*
INTRODUCTION
Recent high-profile incidents of alleged police brutality,
including the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice,
Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, Philando Castile,
Alton Sterling, and many others, have prompted calls for increased
accountability and transparency in policing. Most recently, the
death of Keith Lamont Scott at the hands of a police officer sparked
several days of protests in Charlotte, North Carolina.1 Criminal
justice advocates have called for a shift in the way law enforcement
officials interact with the communities they serve.2 It is well
established that the urban-dwelling poor, many of whom are racial
minorities, experience distinctly different treatment at the hands of
law enforcement.3 Police brutality is particularly salient for
communities of color: young black men are twenty-one times more
J.D. Harvard Law School. I would like to thank the Wake Forest Law
Review for holding a Symposium entitled Implementing De-Incarceration
Strategies: Policies and Practices to Reduce Crime and Mass Incarceration, in
which this research was presented. I would also like to thank Conor Degnan
and Raven Ash; this paper would not have been possible without their
dedicated research assistance.
1. Niraj Chokshi, Keith Lamont Scott Was Killed by Two Gunshot Wounds,
Family Autopsy Finds, N.Y. TIMES (Oct. 12, 2016), http://www.nytimes.com
/2016/10/13/us/keith-lamont-scott-was-killed-by-two-gunshot-wounds-family
-autopsy-finds.html.
2. See, e.g., Seth W. Stoughton, Principled Policing: Warrior Cops and
Guardian Officers, 51 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 611, 666-72 (2016) (describing
[g]uardian principles that law enforcement should adopt in order to better
serve communities).
3. See, e.g., Tracey Maclin, Race and the Fourth Amendment, 51 VAND. L.
REV. 333, 338-89 (1998) (explaining that police brutality and misconduct remain
a problem for minorities); Race as a Factor, HUM. RTS. WATCH,
https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports98/police/uspol7.htm (last visited Oct. 17,
2016) (Race continues to play a central role in police brutality in the United
States. In the cities we have examined..., minorities have alleged human
rights violations by police more frequently than white residents and far out of
proportion to their representation .... ).](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/wflr51&div=42&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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