Police body cameras have become more common over the last decade as pressure increased to improve transparency and trust in light of controversial uses of force by officers across the nation ...

Federal agencies have been slower to adopt them.Though public protest of police violence was one of the key driving factors in the ramp-up of body camera use, studies have been mixed on whether ...

The use of police body cameras has become much more widespread in recent years with the hope that they will curb police violence and improve accountability. But a new investigation by ProPublica ...

Seventy officers will wear the body cameras during the 180-day program. The U.S. Capitol Police on Monday started wearing body-worn cameras as part of its pilot program to protect its officers and ...

The adoption of body-worn cameras nearly a decade ago promised increased transparency of police-community interactions. In Rochester, police are required to record almost all law enforcement ...

By Shaila Dewan The Police Department in Worcester, Mass., could serve as Exhibit A in favor of body cameras for officers. Plagued by allegations that officers planted evidence, stole drug money ...

the Lowell Police Department launched a body-camera pilot program last April that equipped 30 officers – 10 on each shift – with those devices. As part of this initial introduction ...

IF YOU SEE FLASHING LIGHTS BEHIND YOU AND YOU’RE PULLED OVER BY A PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE VEHICLE, YOU MIGHT EXPECT THAT THAT INTERACTION WILL BE RECORDED BY A BODY CAMERA. STATE POLICE ARE ...

More Massachusetts police departments than ever are embracing body-worn cameras, recognizing not just benefits to the public, but to their officers as well. Yet the cameras can come at a steep ...

After the murder of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer in 2020, the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus advanced sweeping criminal justice reforms known as the SAFE-T Act. The act eliminated ...