Camera 네니 캠.. 잊지 않고 해봐야 할텐데~

이거 해보면 정말 도움이 될 것 같다... must do

In The New York Times on Tuesday, I wrote an article about a new small body camera for the police. Whether or not Taser International succeeds in selling this product to law enforcement agencies, someone almost certainly will. The technology (like most digital technologies) is becoming cheaper and more pervasive.

As that happens, we are almost certain to see a lot more videos of police shootings or police officers being shot that were caught by the cameras mounted on their glasses, collar or shoulder.

There are many online already. Some police find it strange to have the scrutiny. Others see a benefit from the public watching them in their actual surroundings, rather than through the lens of television dramas. Either way, it will go with the job.

Sgt. Brandon Davis, a police sergeant in Arkansas whose killing of a man was recorded by his body camera and later shown in part on local television and uploaded to the Internet, found watching his own actions cathartic. (The video helped establish the shooting as justified.) He believes more video should be publicly available.

Sergeant Davis, 36, served as a general’s bodyguard in Iraq, where he said he was involved in several firefights that resulted in deaths. “But in combat, you don’t know the people,” he said. “I had met this man’s wife. He was a United States citizen, someone I had sworn to protect.” For weeks after the shooting, he woke in the night after dreams about the shooting. He would watch the video online to reassure himself that he did the right thing.

Eric Berry, the man he shot, “knew what he was doing,” Sergeant Davis said. “The curtains were drawn in the house, and it was dark. Outside it was high noon. I was standing in the doorway, framed, and if I had not had my flashlight, I would not have seen him. He was in the back of the house, holding a .45. He had set up a textbook ambush.” By repeatedly looking at videos of the room and Mr. Berry’s actions, he says, “I’m at total peace with it now.”

While not all police officers are comfortable with the high level of scrutiny, most say there is little choice but to live with the new reality.

“By law, it is a public document,” said Chris Fowler, a patrol officer in Franconia, N.H., where Bruce McKay, a police corporal, was killed in May 2007. (The video on YouTube has been viewed more than 2.4 million times.) “When we are at the academy, we are told that we have no expectation of privacy in a public place,” he said. “Knowing that I am on video holds me to a higher standard.” That the video records an officer’s death, he says, does not change that.

Sergeant Davis thinks more police officers will get used to the new scrutiny over time. “The young officers like this; only the older ones think it is Big Brother,” he said. “It is shocking stuff, but in our video game world, the public needs to see us as humans. Even our fatalities.”