ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF TECHNOLOGY

Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology

With the increase of violent crimes come the advantages and disadvantages of modern technology in law enforcement. Law enforcement employs the use of stun guns and is equip with car video surveillance. We will examine some of the issues that contain some validity to arguments for the continue use of these tools within law enforcement.
Stun Guns
Stun guns were implemented in law enforcement in the 1980's for the purpose of minimizing the use of firearms. There are valid arguments for both sides of the issue as to whether or not they should continue to be utilized. For the sake of this argument will concentrate on the pro side.
Since the introduction of the implementation of stun guns in law enforcement the use of deadly force had dropped to fifty-nine percent in the number of shootings by the city's police force over the past two years. (The Phoenix Police Department, Feb. 2004) Since the introduction of stun guns in 1999, many law enforcement agencies reported drops of excessive use of force by law enforcement.
While there have some opposition to the use of stun guns, the statistics in many states report that as much as seventy-eight to eighty percent of excessive deadly force was minimize as well as the number of injuries of officers. (Issues & Controversies, 2004)
Another tool that has played an important role in law enforcement is the use of video mounted cameras in patrol cars. With the use of video patrol cars, it has a dual purpose: one for the suspect and two to monitor a law enforcement officer's conduct.
A potential suspect without the use of video surveillance may claim that his rights were violated and the law enforcement...

Disadvantages and Advantages of technology. Well you can't really go on one side since everyone has their own point of view, but here are some advantages to technology, with technology you can do work more efficiently, employment is better because new jobs are coming up because of the new technology, accessing to information is easy, it is more organized an example is if you write a essay on paper you can lose it very easily but if you type it up in MS word it can be saved on your computer or a USB stick, and the last advantage i can think of is downloading you can get any song or music video for free instead of buying it. There are disadvantage as well to this, jobs that were done by hand will be all gone, developing countries can't afford all the advanced technology so people from there try to settle in a developed country it will be hard for them to get a job since they will have to learn new skills like how to work a computer, use up a lot of energy, ergonomics can be a factor as well, can make you lazy, new forms of entertainment, such as video games and internet access could have possible social effects on areas such as academic performance, and you would have less conversations face to face because of e-mail or the phone, or text messages, msn, facebook. These are all the advantages and disadvantages of technology, but really, its what your point of view is.