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Eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was memorialized Monday at a St. Louis church. The teenager's shooting death sparked a lot of questions about what we might know about what happened that day between Brown and Officer Darren Wilson if the police officer had been wearing a body camera.

  
Police in Minneapolis this fall will begin wearing cameras as part of a pilot project.

Howard Wasserman, a law professor at Florida International University, says many police departments favor body cams because they might reduce complaints against officers.  And he says cams have support among the public, which sees the devices as a way to curb police misconduct.

But law enforcement body cams are certainly not infallible. On The Daily Circuit, we discuss what research reveals about their value and what you might call the "blind spot" of body cams.

Do you think more police departments should be replacing dash cams with body cams? How comfortable would you be in knowing that any interaction you might have with a police officer was being recorded? Leave your comments below.

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What more might we know about what happened that day between Brown and Officer Darren Wilson if the police officer had been wearing a body camera?

Some Minneapolis police officers will begin wearing video cameras on their bodies as part of a pilot project this fall. The cameras record officers' interactions with the public.

Should cops be wearing video cameras?

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