Their footage can provide valuable evidence in cases where police and civilian accounts of events differ. “In court, the jury can see what exactly happened,” explains Richard Beary, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. “It's a very realistic depiction of what happened.” “There are a lot of false accusations and the videos show that the officers are right about 99% of the time,” Beary said. That's one reason why Jason Parker, chief of the Dalton, Georgia, police department, believes most law enforcement agencies in the United States are in favor of body cameras. “They want to demonstrate to the public that they are doing things professionally and that, in general, they are using a lot of restraint” (“Considering Police Body Cameras”). Without cameras, officers can write their stories as they see fit, police officers, often when writing their reports, write how they wish they had behaved rather than, in fact, how they behaved (Feige).,
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