body cams
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NYPD Officer Reportedly Suspended After Recording His Testicles On Body Cam
The New York City Police Department has suspended a detective after learning he recorded a 32-second video of his testicles on a body cam in what appears to have been a horribly ill-advised prank, the New York Daily News reported on Saturday.
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Taser’s Latest Body Cams Push Is Unregulated, Unprecedented And Disturbing
On Wednesday, Axon (formerly “Taser”) announced its offer to outfit every cop in the US with a free body camera, with rollout beginning as soon as the end of the month. About 20 per cent of US police departments use body cameras. The overwhelmingly majority of all police departments have no policies about how best…
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Cops Wearing Body Cameras Are More Likely To Be Assaulted
A large-scale analysis of body-camera usage among police officers in the US and the UK has produced some rather unexpected and counter-intuitive results, showing that body-worn cameras have a tendency to increase assaults on police. At the same time, discretionary use of cameras increases an officer’s tendency to use force.
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Seattle Police Put Redacted Body Cam Footage On YouTube
In a bid to be more transparent, the Seattle Police Department is posting footage from the body cameras and dashboard cameras of on-duty cops on YouTube. But the footage has been carefully censored to blur out faces and remove any sound.