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

by Bryce Clayton Newell
Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras

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

by Bryce Clayton Newell

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Overview

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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520382923
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 06/15/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 260
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Bryce Clayton Newell is Assistant Professor of Media Law and Policy in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. He is the editor of Police on CameraPrivacy in Public Space, and Surveillance, Privacy, and Public Space.

Table of 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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