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Haneen J. Alani
University of New Haven
Issues concerning police misconduct and mistrust of law enforcement officers have been around far longer than the development of wearable and vehicle-mounted dashboard cameras (Dunham & Alpert, 1997). Concerns regarding police misconduct and unethical behaviors are as old as the United States (Otu et al., 2022). According to the Human Rights Watch Report (1998), cases of police misconduct date back as far as the 1700s, when racism, prejudice, and discrimination facilitated voter suppression, segregation, and violence against minority groups, specifically Black Americans (Walker, 2005).