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Should Officers Be Forced To Wear Body Cams?

April 14, 2016April 14, 2016 CopBlock 1738 Views Accountability, accountablity, ancillary equipment, body, body camera, body camera footage, body cams, body worn cameras, bodycams, Brutality, cam, camera, Civil rights, civilian complaints, community concerns, community policing, cop, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, data storage and management, decrease in civilian complaints, decrease in use of force incidents, Dishonesty, duty, evidence, film the police, Filming police, Footage, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, PERF, Perf's report, police, police accountability, police body cameras, police body cams, Police brutality, Police Executive Research Forum, promote transparency, rights, rundown live, sample of police departments, shooting, Surveillance, survey, tablets, training, Transparency, use of force, video

More police departments are now requiring their officers to wear body cameras as a way to promote transparency in light

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Jacob Crawford Imparts Knowledge on CNN Audience About Need to Film the Police

November 22, 2014November 22, 2014 CopBlock 1659 Views canfield watchmen, cnn, Coercion, cop block, copblock.org, Copwatch, ferguson, film the police, jacob crawford, mike brown, police accountability, police body cameras, police body cams, rialto, taser international, the streets are watching, we copwatch, wecopwatch.org

Founder of WeCopwatch and producer of the first know-your-rights video to use content entirely from the street, Jacob Crawford has

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Police body worn cameras – not the panacea they are claimed to be

January 4, 2014 Pete Eyre 1384 Views avon police, body cameras, Censorship, college of policing, cop block, copblock.org, david davis, hampshire police, netpol, northamptonshire police, police body cams, somerset police, staffordshire police, Surveillance, sussex police, Technology, thames valley police, theresa may, Transparency, UK

The text below was posted to Netpol.org on November 19, 2013. It is reposted here as this is a timely

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