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Running Head: Public Policy Issues 1

Public Policy Issues 1

Public Policy Issues

Shawnette Howard

CJ520

The public policy I have selected is domestic violence and child neglect, and the equivalent policy will be body cameras. Nobody should be vulnerable to domestic violence or even child abuse but, unfortunately it does happen all the time and when it does happen there is support for the victims. There are nine types of abuse that can occur there are physical violence in which violence in the fore-front and something object are used to belittle the victim. There is sexual abuse when a person is force against their will to perform sexual act. There is emotional abuse when someone says something to make a person feel worthless. Psychological Violence when the suspect uses threat to scare that victim. Spiritual Violence when a person uses someone religion to manipulate them. Cultural Violence is when a person is harmed because of their culture there is also verbal abuse where a person is talking down to by using expletive language. Financial Abuse when a person feels that you need them to survive, they abuse that power and neglect when a person is your stole providing and they are supposed to provide for you, but they do not so, all of these plays a part in domestic violence (Violence Prevention Initiative 2014). The body camera corresponds with domestic violence because individual have rights to their home but when a domestic violence occurs, and a body camera is worn it can retrieve a perfect picture of the crime scene and the people that are involve in the situation so nothing could be misconstrued. In comparison, body cameras record video and auditory evidence as opposed to the body microphones that certain law enforcement officers have. Inherently more invasive than most criminal interrogation methods are the ability to collect these visual images in one person's house. It is therefore vital to know that whenever the officers are called to a house on a family abuse or abuse attack, the situations are humiliating for the parties involved and likely uncomfortable. Presumably unpredictable and dangerous to safety. Law enforcement personnel may meet victims, offenders, and people without simple clothes who are bellicose or stubborn, swallowed or otherwise impaired. When looking for police assistance, the victim is certain to know and assume that arresting officers will witness this, but he is not supposed to eventually have his own appearance and behavior, when the officers use body cameras, available for public viewing (Ariel, 2016). The Violence against women Act was passed by Congress in 1994. In this Act and in the 1996 amendments to the Act, domestic abuse is recognized as a nationwide offense and federal policy will relate to the overstretched state and municipal criminal justice systems. In 1994 and 1996, Congress revised the Gun Control Act to ensure that perpetrators of domestic violence have firearms as criminal crimes in some cases. Your state and city authorities will have to deal with the bulk of domestic abuse incidents. However, in certain situations, federal regulations and the advantages obtained from the enforcement of these statutes may be the correct course of action (Federal Domestic Violence Laws, 2020). I seek to address that even though the city should handle the bulk of the domestic violence. I feel as if the federal government should also step in especially when there is firearm including and there a multiple fatally.

References

Ariel, B. (2016). The puzzle of police body cams. IEEE Spectrum, 53(7), 32–37. https://doi.org/10.1109/mspec.2016.7498156

Federal Domestic Violence Laws. (2020, May 26). Federal Domestic Violence Laws. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/victim-witness-program/federal-domestic-violence-laws

https://www.gov.nl.ca/vpi/files/nine_types_of_violence.pdf

https://www.bwjp.org/assets/documents/pdfs/police-body-cams-in-domestic-and-sexual-assault-inve.pdf