Los Angeles Police Department Distributes Body Cameras To Officers
LatestOn Monday, August 31, the Los Angeles Police Department assigned body cameras to its first patrol division. As the second largest city in the United States, this new policy is a significant, if insufficient, move towards the prevention of excessive police force and racial profiling.
From Yahoo News:
“The nearly 9,900-member LAPD is the nation’s third-largest metropolitan police force and the biggest to commit to equipping all its patrol officers, numbering about 7,000 personnel, with bodycams.”
New York City has already implemented the use of body cameras, though many say the program needs to be refined. Chicago, too, has launched its own pilot program. One day after “the mayor of Milwaukee proposed spending $880,000 to equip his city’s entire force,” the LAPD launched its own game plan.