Abstract
Citizens recording police (a form of “sousveillance”) has become increasingly common in recent years. Citizen media can have a substantial impact on policing and police image management – and thus effect public perceptions of police legitimacy. On the other hand, police departments are increasingly utilizing sophisticated visual surveillance technologies, such as officer-mounted wearable cameras, to document police-citizen encounters. This paper examines, theoretically, the role that citizen media should play as a liberty-preserving form of reciprocal transparency, what forms of respect ought to be owed by camera-wielding citizens to the police officers and other subjects of their recordings in public spaces.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 59-105 |
Number of pages | 46 |
Journal | University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy |
Volume | 2014 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - May 2014 |
Keywords
- surveillance
- sousveillance
- Police
- citizen media
- citizen video
- law
- body cameras
- privacy