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Topic: The Police Should Have Free Access to Citizens’ Phone Records.

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Topic: The Police Should Have Free Access to Citizens’ Phone Records.

Audience: General Public, Communication Service Providers and Government

Purpose: To convince the public that the Police should have free access to citizens’ phone record

Thesis Statement: It is strongly argued that the police should have free access to citizens’ phone

record because it can be used to lesson criminal activities and aid in the safety of citizens and law

enforcement officers.

Sentence Outline:

1. The police should have access to citizen’s phone records.

a) For the purpose of national security (Crampton, 2015).

b) To access records following an incidence and in the course of a criminal prosecution

(Crampton, 2015).

c) A victim of crime disclosing information that is evidence of that crime or that is

otherwise intended to protect its rights or property (Morrison, 2020).

2. Police accessing citizen’s phone records helps reduce crime.

a) Considering that in the modern world our lives are on our phones, citizen’s phone

records are a key source of evidence if police suspects that one has committed a crime

(Morrison, 2020).

b) Citizen’s phone records are a vital source of intelligence regarding impending crimes

as perpetrators use the phones for communications before, during, and after incidents

of crime (Morrison, 2020).


c) The citizen’s phone records presents vast troves of personal data which are crucial

towards speedy prosecutions (Reddick, Chatfield & Jaramillo, 2015).

3. Police accessing citizen’s phone records aids in the safety of citizens and law

enforcement officers

a) Accessing the citizen’s phone records supports continued investigations so as to

protect the civilians from terrorist threats (Morrison, 2020).

b) Citizen’s phone records provides for immediate/quick retrieval of information that

can save lives (Reddick, Chatfield & Jaramillo, 2015).

c) Phone records provides for precise and tangible intel that law enforcement could use

before making arrests and raids to avoid getting into ambush/set-ups (Stanley &

Steinhardt, 2014). 
References.

Crampton, J. W. (2015). Collect it all: National security, big data and

governance. GeoJournal, 80, 519-531.

Morrison, S. (2020). The Police Want Your Phone Data. Here’s What They Can Get-and What

They Can’t. Vox, Vox Media, Inc, 24.

Reddick, C. G., Chatfield, A. T., & Jaramillo, P. A. (2015). Public opinion on National Security

Agency surveillance programs: A multi-method approach. Government Information

Quarterly, 32(2), 129-141.

Stanley, J., & Steinhardt, B. (2014). Bigger monster, weaker chains: the growth of an American

surveillance society (pp. 269-284). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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