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Note: Boldface page numbers indicate reduces police violence, 40–42
illustrations. police should not be required to wear
are invasion of privacy, 46, 49–50
accountability are too expensive to buy and maintain,
body cameras increase, 39–40, 42–43 46–48, 49
lack of transparency and, 35 basic facts about, 38
measures taken by police to achieve, 10 department policies are poor, 46, 48
need for data and transparency for, 7–8 have little effect on police behavior, 46
qualifi ed immunity should be ended for, public opinion about police wearing, 41
32–34 US House of Representatives law
Alexander, Monica, 14 mandating, 45
Alpert, Geoffrey, 16 Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, 6
American Academy of Neurology, 17–18 Brown, Michael, 40
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 46, 49 Bureau of Justice Statistics, 40
Arlington, Texas, 33–34
Asian Americans and facial recognition Camden, New Jersey, 15
technology, 50 cash bail, elimination of, 11
Chapman, Brett, 42
Baltimore, Maryland, 47 Chauvin, Derek, 13, 35
Black Americans Cheema, Puneet, 13
facial recognition technology and, 50 Chicago
number of Black versus White Americans foot pursuits in, 17
killed by police, 7, 9 payments by, to settle police misconduct
opinion about police’s racial fairness, 10 lawsuits, 34–35
percentage of Black versus White use of body cameras in, 43
Americans’ belief in police’s racial chokeholds, 17–18, 22
fairness, 10 Cincinnati, Ohio, 15
use of body cameras and complaints made civilians, annual number killed by law
by, 43 enforcement, 7
as wary of police encounters, 10 Council on Criminal Justice, 40–41
Black Lives Matter protests, 7, 11 crime, increase in violent, result from
body cameras restrictions, 20, 21
accountability and, 10 Cubukcu, Suat, 43
decrease in citizen complaints and, 42–43
Floyd killing and, 4, 40 Dallas, 21
guidelines for, 48 data, 7–8
inaccuracy of facial recognition, 50 de-escalation training, reduces use of force,
more citizens prosecuted as result of use 16
of, 45 duty-to-intervene policies, 15
number of police departments using (2013),
40 Elliott, Caleb, 33–34
police should be required to wear
basic facts about, 38 facial recognition, inaccuracy of body
increases accountability, 39–40, 42–43 cameras, 50
is cost effective, 43–44 Federal Bureau of Investigation, 7
protects offi cers, 39–40, 43 Ferguson, Missouri, 20–21, 40

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