Introduction

Body-cameras were and continue to be a hot topic for law enforcement officials and the media alike. In light of multiple police-involved brutality incidents over the past few years, funding was pledged by the likes of former president Barack Obama and the mayor of Los Angeles as well as urged by Hilary Clinton (Frazier, 2015). According to Frazier, two sociologists claimed that with the rise of body-camera footage, police will place the footage in view of the world and use it to authorize actions (2015). On the contrary, Taser, the largest manufacturer of body-cameras, "...describes the cameras as a means to keep ordinary citizens on the side of the police and as an insurance policy against costly police-misconduct lawsuits" (Frazier, 2015).