In this article it touches on the topic of Police Brutality and the incorporation of technology that help bystanders and citizens to bring truth to viewers. Several people have come up with different types of applications that will provide bystanders and citizens with the proper tools that can help catch these acts of violence in the moment.
Darren Baptiste, creator of Cop Watch, created an app that records a video and will instantly upload to video to youtube after releasing the record button. The reason for having instant upload time is because police will sometimes confiscate cameras with sensitive information pertaining to themselves.
In our Society and Technology class we talk about how police brutality can been seen post Hurricane Katrina. In Spike Lee’s Documentary “When the Levees Broke”, a photo shows cops walking out of a convenience store with DVD’s not concerned with the tragic events that have fallen. On the other side, they show the cops having a showdown with some local citizens who are locked in a store while the press covers them as criminals and stopping a “robbery”. Which I don’t think is justified as a crime because at this point, the government and police authority are preventing you to survive as a human being. To me those would be food, water, and shelter in order to survive. In this scenario, they stopped citizens who were trying to eat due the increase of chaos and lack of outside help in order to survive until help was on their way.
Documentation of police brutality and reformation in government authority protocols have been in change over the years as videos surfaced showing a more brutal side of the justice field. For example the demonstrations and protests of “Black Lives Matter” sparked another re-occurrence with the police.
The Obama administration has even started considering issuing their police uniforms with cameras installed into them for research and review of outside parties. If citizens don’t know they’re being filmed is this a violation of their rights and who has access to the information that is recorded on these cameras? If citizens are in a public space they have the right to videotape what they see and their are many people that support this idea since police have been telling others to stop recording of activities.
susancinderella 
Apr 13, 2015 @ 15:18:06
I feel like more often than not in a lot of the DTC classes I’ve taken, there is a lot of focus on the adverse effects of technology (dependence on devices, internet predators, loss of social skills, etc.). It’s sometimes easy to lose sight of/take for granted the fact that technology has been used in some really amazing ways. Often when it comes to social issues, I tend to think of technology’s main role as something that helps people mobilize and spreads awareness (use of social media mostly). Anyone who doesn’t live under a rock knows this has been a major issue as of late, and has resulted in so much tragedy. It’s just honestly incredible to see someone take this kind of action and create an app that actively tackles the issue of police brutality.