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First Person Shooter: On-Body Police Cams
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First Person Shooter: On-Body Police Cams

2013 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Taser, the company best known for stun guns, is pushing a new product: body-worn cameras for police officers, marketed as a way to record every arrest and every encounter from an officer's point of view. This short documentary asks who actually benefits from that footage. It compares the pitch to reality-TV cop shows like Cops, but framed as constant, official surveillance rather than entertainment, and follows the argument that footage sold as protection for citizens just as easily becomes evidence controlled by police departments and the companies that store it. Interviews and footage lay out the commercial incentives behind the rollout, from Taser's business model to police departments adopting the technology, and raise questions about who owns the video, who can access it, and how footage gets used when an incident becomes contested. The film treats body cameras less as a settled solution to police accountability and more as a new technology whose consequences, for both officers and the public, are still being worked out in practice.