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Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras


Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras

Paperback by Newell, Bryce Clayton

Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras

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ISBN:
9780520382909
Publication Date:
15 Jun 2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of California Press
Pages:
260 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 6 - 8 May 2024
Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras

Description

Police Visibility presents empirically grounded research into how police officers experience and manage the information politics of surveillance and visibility generated by the introduction of body cameras into their daily routines and the increasingly common experience of being recorded by civilian bystanders. Newell elucidates how these activities intersect with privacy, free speech, and access to information law and argues that rather than being emancipatory systems of police oversight, body-worn cameras are an evolution in police image work and state surveillance expansion. Throughout the book, he catalogs how surveillance generates information, the control of which creates and facilitates power and potentially fuels state domination. The antidote, he argues, is robust information law and policy that puts the power to monitor and regulate the police squarely in the hands of citizens.

Contents

Acknowledgments Note about Prior Publications Introduction 1 Visibility, Surveillance, and the Police 2 Privacy, Speech, and Access to Information 3 Bystander Video and "the Right to Record" 4 Policing as (Monitored) Performance 5 The (Techno-)Regulation of Police Work 6 Public Disclosure as "Direct to YouTube" Alternative Conclusion Methodological Note Appendix A. Tables Appendix B. Figures Notes Bibliography Index

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