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McMillan, set the standard for police use of force, said Peterson, who was part of a team performing the first evaluation of a corrections body-camera program at a jail in Loudoun County, Virginia ...
The theory of using body cameras is that police officers will be less likely to commit misconduct if they understand that their actions are being recorded. [148] The United States Department of Justice under Obama's administration supplied $20 million for body cameras to be implemented in police departments. [149]
The use of body cameras exploded after a series of high-profile police killings in the early 2010s — most notably the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
The office of New York’s attorney general released body camera footage Friday showing the fatal beating of a state prisoner this month by correctional officers who punched and kicked him ...
Both officers had their body cameras switched off. [30] Minneapolis introduced police body cameras in 2016, but their activation was not mandatory in all situations. [31] No audio or video recordings captured the killing, [23] although a 16-year-old bicyclist took cell-phone video of the scene after the shooting. [32]
The death first received attention in September 2020 when the police body camera video and written reports were released along with the autopsy report. Following the report's release, protesters demonstrated outside the Rochester police headquarters and many considered the death to be related to Prude's race.
Home Office says police use of technology must be ‘lawful, proportionate and justified’ More than 150 incidents of police body-camera misuse – report Skip to main content
A police officer wearing a body camera on his uniform. In policing equipment, a police body camera or wearable camera, also known as body worn video (BWV), body-worn camera (BWC), or body camera, is a wearable audio, video, or photographic recording system used by police to record events in which law enforcement officers are involved, from the perspective of the officer wearing it.