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Who Should Own Police Body Camera Videos?, Laurent Sacharoff, Sarah Lustbader
Who Should Own Police Body Camera Videos?, Laurent Sacharoff, Sarah Lustbader
Laurent Sacharoff
Numerous cities, states, and localities have adopted police body camera programs to enhance police accountability in the wake of repeated instances of police misconduct, as well as recent reports of more deep-seated police problems. These body camera programs hold great promise to achieve accountability, often backed by millions of dollars of federal grants.
But so far, this promise of accountability has gone largely unrealized, in part because police departments exercise near-total control over body camera programs and the videos themselves. In fact, the police view these programs chiefly as a tool of ordinary law enforcement rather than accountability — as …