Police on Camera

Introduction: The Ayes Have It-Should They? Police Body-Worn Cameras

Section 1: Setting the Stage: Theory and Practice

1. Taking Off the Blinders: A General Framework to Understand How Bodycams Work

2. Theorizing Police Body-Worn Cameras

3. Reading the Body-Worn Camera as Multiple: A Reconsideration of Entities as Enactments

Section 2: Accountability and Discretion

4. Can We Count on the Police? Definitional Issues in Considering the Promise of Body Worn Cameras to Increase Police Accountability

5. The Camera Never Lies? Police Body Worn Cameras and Operational Discretion

6. Does Surveillance of Officers Lead to De-Policing? A Block Randomized Crossover Controlled Trial on Body-Worn Cameras in Uruguay

7. Police Body-Worn Cameras in the Canadian Context: Policing's New Visibility and Today's Expectations for Police Accountability

8. Commentary: Accountability, Discretion, and the Questions We Ask

9. Commentary: Questioning Assumptions of De-Policing and Erasures of Race: A Rejoinder to Ariel's Study of Camera-Induced Passivity Among Traffic Police in Uruguay

Section 3: Privacy and Surveillance

10. Not Just about Privacy: Police Body-Worn Cameras and the Costs of Public Area Surveillance

11. Privacy, Public Disclosure, and Police-Worn Body Camera Footage

12. The Rise of Body-Worn Video Cameras: A New Surveillance Revolution?

13. Commentary: A Republican and Collective Approach to the Privacy and Surveillance Issues of Bodycams

14. Commentary: Protecting the Rights of Citizens on Camera: Why Restricting Disclosure of Police Body Camera Footage is Better than Giving Victims Control over Recording

Conclusion: Body Worn Cameras, Surveillance, and Police Legitimacy