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New Ohio law could charge public for access to police videos
1 week ago

New Ohio law could charge public for access to police videos

The Independent  

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Berhampur police introduce body cameras for transparency; probe launched into alleged assault
2 months ago

Berhampur police introduce body cameras for transparency; probe launched into alleged assault

New Indian Express  

BERHAMPUR: Following the footsteps of the Bhubaneshwar Commissionerate Police, Berhampur police introduced body cameras for its personnel on Monday. Justifying the necessity of body cameras, Berhampur SP Saravana Vivek M said the devices will help detect traffic rule violators and police’s behaviour with general public. “In order to ensure transparency and good behaviour by police towards common people, body cameras …

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Supermarket Dirk equipping staff with body-cams; Privacy watchdog concerned
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Supermarket Dirk equipping staff with body-cams; Privacy watchdog concerned

NL Times  

Supermarket Dirk van den Broek will equip employees with body cameras. The bodycam Dirk van den Broek will use is a small camera with a screen on which misbehaving customers will see themselves. “We have always used camera surveillance in the stores for prevention,” said director Dirk van den Broek. That applies to regular cameras that hang on the wall, …

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents roll out body cameras to agents in five cities
9 months, 4 weeks ago

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents roll out body cameras to agents in five cities

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in five cities will start wearing body-worn cameras as they interact with the public under a new policy announced Wednesday. Acting ICE Director Patrick J. Lechleitner said the agency has 1,600 body-worn cameras that will be furnished to agents and officers in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Buffalo and Detroit. ICE conducted a …

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Group pushes for change in how police use body camera footage in officer shooting probes
1 year ago

Group pushes for change in how police use body camera footage in officer shooting probes

The Independent  

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Woke Yale physician demands doctors be forced to wear BODYCAMS to catch racist staff
1 year, 6 months ago

Woke Yale physician demands doctors be forced to wear BODYCAMS to catch racist staff

Daily Mail  

A woke Yale University physician said doctors should be forced to wear body cameras to catch racist doctors as she claims to have seen a black teen die in the ER as colleagues 'chuckled' and said 'he's just another criminal.' 'I have heard White nurses joke that young Black children will probably join gangs and doctors describe the natural hair …

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Football referees to wear body cameras after Sydney violence
1 year, 8 months ago

Football referees to wear body cameras after Sydney violence

The Hindu  

Body cameras will be worn by referees in an amateur Sydney football league a week after one of their colleagues had his jaw broken by a suspended player. Bankstown District Amateur Football Association said that from Friday, it will begin a body camera trial for referees in its senior men’s matches. England’s Football Association began a trial of body cameras …

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TCs to sport body cameras to ward off aggressive commuters
1 year, 8 months ago

TCs to sport body cameras to ward off aggressive commuters

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: A new Central Railway initiative to protect its ticket-checking staff from aggressive commuters is on the anvil. CR officials have planned to procure 1,300 body cameras to be worn by TCs who inspect tickets on platforms and inside trains across the Mumbai division. TCs to sport body cameras to ward off aggressive commuters The TCs currently refrain from entering …

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Body Cams, Drone in UP's Kasganj Jail After Abbas Ansari Claimed Threat to Life
1 year, 10 months ago

Body Cams, Drone in UP's Kasganj Jail After Abbas Ansari Claimed Threat to Life

News 18  

The Uttar Pradesh government has upgraded security at the Kasganj jail where Abbas Ansari, the son of Mukhtar Ansari and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party MLA, is currently lodged. Body cameras and a drone have been provided in Kasganj jail after Abbas Ansari claimed a threat to life inside prison. His brother, Umar Ansari, had recently written to Uttar Pradesh Home …

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Swift firing of police is rare, but could become more common
1 year, 11 months ago

Swift firing of police is rare, but could become more common

Associated Press  

BOSTON — The speed with which five Memphis police officers were fired following the traffic stop of a man who later died in a hospital is unusual but could become more common, according to those studying police and criminal justice issues. The five Memphis Police Department officers were fired Friday, less than two weeks after the Jan. 7 arrest of …

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Exclusive: New audio of phone call shows for the first time that a senior Uvalde officer was told children needed to be rescued from inside a classroom
2 years, 1 month ago

Exclusive: New audio of phone call shows for the first time that a senior Uvalde officer was told children needed to be rescued from inside a classroom

CNN  

Uvalde, Texas CNN — Uvalde’s acting police chief knew there were “eight to nine” children alive and needing rescue from a shooter in the classrooms at Robb Elementary but failed to organize help, new audio of a phone call and CNN analysis of newly obtained video shows. Lt. Mariano Pargas called his Uvalde Police Department dispatchers to get details after …

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What So Many Refuse to See in a Horrifying New Arkansas Police Video
2 years, 4 months ago

What So Many Refuse to See in a Horrifying New Arkansas Police Video

Slate  

A horrifying incident this weekend in Mulberry, Arkansas, has marked the latest chapter of America’s ongoing conversation about police violence. In addition to the high-profile cases of police violence that we have become familiar with in past years, we have also recently witnessed various forms of other misconduct by law enforcement. The bill was largely intended to address systemic racism …

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Delhi Traffic Police to procure latest version of body cams
2 years, 4 months ago

Delhi Traffic Police to procure latest version of body cams

Firstpost  

The traffic unit already has over 400 body cameras and the department requires around 2,000 such equipment, officials said New Delhi: The Delhi Traffic Police is planning to procure the latest version of body cameras for enhanced traffic management, officials said on Tuesday. The traffic unit already has over 400 body cameras and the department requires around 2,000 such equipment, …

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Editorial: Police body cams shouldn’t be surveillance tools
2 years, 7 months ago

Editorial: Police body cams shouldn’t be surveillance tools

LA Times  

Police body cameras and facial recognition technology serve two completely different purposes and shouldn’t be combined. Body cams record officer interactions with the public and make police less likely to fib about what they did or why, because they know there will be a reviewable recording. It infringes on privacy — with little benefit to public safety, because facial recognition …

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Bias, far-right sympathies among California law enforcement going unchecked, audit finds
2 years, 8 months ago

Bias, far-right sympathies among California law enforcement going unchecked, audit finds

LA Times  

A state audit of five law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, found unchecked bias and support for far-right extremist groups among officers. The Los Angeles Police Department has been accused of showing sympathy to far-right protesters at demonstrations in L.A., and L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva recently said 80% of his workforce was “conservative and far …

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Brazil experiments with body cams to reduce deaths by police
3 years, 2 months ago

Brazil experiments with body cams to reduce deaths by police

Associated Press  

SAO PAULO — For years, Carlos Minc, a Rio de Janeiro state lawmaker, pushed to make body cameras mandatory in all law enforcement agencies. For years, Brazilian state authorities have considered making law officers wear body cameras, sometimes trying small-scale initiatives, and they are closely watching the recent broad implementation in Sao Paulo. The governors-elect of Rio de Janeiro and …

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First set of Justice Dept. agents now wearing body cams
3 years, 4 months ago

First set of Justice Dept. agents now wearing body cams

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has identified the first set of federal agents to wear body cameras under a new policy that reversed a yearslong ban, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday. It is the first step under a Justice Department policy enacted earlier this year that requires all of its federal agents to wear body cameras when executing arrest …

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22% of LAPD officers failed to promptly activate body cameras in force incidents
3 years, 5 months ago

22% of LAPD officers failed to promptly activate body cameras in force incidents

LA Times  

A recent review found some LAPD officers failed to activate their body cameras in a timely manner during incidents in which serious force was used. Nearly a fourth of Los Angeles police officers involved in incidents where serious force was used failed to activate their body cameras in a timely manner, according to a recent review of such cases by …

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Indiana State Police distributing body cameras to troopers
3 years, 6 months ago

Indiana State Police distributing body cameras to troopers

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — Body cameras have been distributed to nearly one-third of front-line Indiana state troopers almost a year after the governor announced the step as part of the state’s response to racial injustice concerns, state police officials said Thursday. The camera system, which is estimated to cost about $15 million to operate over five years, includes sensors that automatically turn …

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Attorneys: Woman never saw a gun on man shot by task force
3 years, 7 months ago

Attorneys: Woman never saw a gun on man shot by task force

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — The woman who was in a vehicle when members of a federal U.S. Marshals Service task force fatally shot the driver last week said she never saw a gun on the man or in the vehicle, her attorneys said Thursday. The woman’s attorneys, Christopher Nguyen and Racey Rodne, said their client “never saw a gun on Winston Smith …

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Deputies who fatally shot man in Minneapolis were undercover
3 years, 7 months ago

Deputies who fatally shot man in Minneapolis were undercover

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — The two sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed a Black man during an arrest attempt by a U.S. Marshals Service task force in Minneapolis were working undercover at the time so their names will not be released, state investigators said Wednesday. Marshals Service said he was wanted for allegedly being a felon in possession of a firearm and …

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Deputies who killed man had body cams, couldn’t use them
3 years, 7 months ago

Deputies who killed man had body cams, couldn’t use them

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The two sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed a Black man while assigned to a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force had been told they could not use their body-worn cameras, despite a change in Justice Department policy to allow cameras months before the shooting. Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher decided to pull his deputies from the task …

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Justice Department to require federal agents to wear body cameras when serving warrants
3 years, 7 months ago

Justice Department to require federal agents to wear body cameras when serving warrants

LA Times  

The Justice Department will require its officers to wear body cameras when serving warrants or conducting raids, putting it in line with a growing number of local departments. The Justice Department on Monday announced it will require federal agents to wear body cameras when serving arrest warrants or conducting raids, a shift that aligns federal law enforcement more closely with …

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Ohio governor proposes $10 million for police body cameras
3 years, 11 months ago

Ohio governor proposes $10 million for police body cameras

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hundreds of law enforcement agencies in Ohio will be able to buy body-worn cameras through a $10 million grant Gov. It protects the public and it’s good to have that transparency.” He added, “It is the right thing to do.” As of February, only 183 of the state’s about 900 law enforcement agencies both have body cameras …

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