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Some Police Departments Embrace Body Cameras

Now that a federal judge has declared New York's stop-and-frisk unconstitutional, some patrol officers will be strapping on judicially-mandated body cameras. It's a first for the NYPD — but other...

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Bratton: NYPD Officers Will Wear Body Cameras this Fall

The New York Police department announced Thursday it's launching a pilot program to test 60 cameras worn by officers, becoming the latest and largest police department in the country to accept the...

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Cameras, Conservatives, Con Men, and More

On police body cameras, the conservative reaction to events in Ferguson, and the con men who charm the media. 

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What's Next For The NYPD: Re-Training and Cameras

The mayor has said that the grand jury is "the first chapter" in the Eric Garner case and has promised re-training for NYPD officers to address interactions with civilians. Rocco Parascandola,  NY...

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Body Cameras Come to Three NYC Precincts

An NYPD pilot program will have nine officers wear body cameras in each of three precincts. WNYC’s Stephen Nessen talks about the program set to launch today in the 120th Precinct on Staten Island, the...

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5 Things to Know Before Recording the Police

Law enforcement officers are adapting to new technologies as more and more departments record interactions with civilians using body cameras and dashcams. But what are your rights if you film a police...

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After An Earthquake, Body Cams, and Veep

What the media get wrong about earthquakes, surveillance the public loves and hates, and the creator of HBO's Veep.

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NYPD Needs To Revise Body-Camera Policies

Last December at the height of protests over policing, the New York Police Department launched a pilot program to test the use of body cameras on 54 officers at various precincts. Now the NYPD’s...

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Why aren’t more people talking about Latinos killed by police?

Protesters in Oakland, California, raise their hands toward a line of police officers on Highway 880 during a protest against the police shootings. Photo by Stephen Lam / Reuters As videos of Alton...

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[Update] Eyes on Cops

The scenes of violence caught on video recently have been a painful reminder of the strained relations between the public and the police in our country. This friction is not new. What is new is the...

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Video: Charlotte shooting of Keith Scott filmed by wife, released by family...

Lawyers for the family of Keith Lamont Scott, who was shot and killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on Tuesday, released cell phone video of the incident captured by his wife. The video appears to...

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#AskTheMayor: Snow Day Mechanics, Sanctuary for Low-Level Offenses, NYPD Body...

Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.

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Proposed NYPD Body Camera Policy Focuses on Transparency

After a year of community outreach and input from organizations including the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the New York Police Department is proposing a new...

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Disputing the Details for the NYPD Body Cameras

Jin Hee Lee, deputy director of litigation of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and co-lead counsel in Davis, et al. v. City of New York and New York City Housing Authority, and...

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NYPD Launches First Phase of Body Camera Pilot

The New York City Police Department officially launched its court-ordered body camera pilot program Thursday after nearly four years of delay. Mayor de Blasio and Police commissioner James O'Neill made...

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Deals, Deals, Deals; the First Fatal NYPD Encounter Caught on Camera; Sen....

Coming up on today's show: Josh Dawsey, POLITICO White House reporter, discusses the latest revelation that Michael Flynn, President Trump's former National Security Advisor, was paid to advise a...

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The First Fatal NYPD Encounter Caught on a Body Camera

The NYPD has released footage, from police body cameras, of officers shooting and killing a Bronx man. Jim O'Grady, a WNYC reporter, and Carla Rabinowitz, an advocacy coordinator with Community Access...

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The NYPD is Almost Finished Rolling Out Body Cameras — Here's What They've...

Since 2017, the NYPD has been issuing body-worn cameras to police officers throughout New York City — and by the beginning of March, the rollout to the entire patrol force will be complete. It's the...

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The Value and the Toll of Documenting Police Brutality

Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the police killing of Eric Garner in Staten Island New York in 2014, was released from prison this month. Orta captured Garner’s final moments for the world to see,...

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A man went missing after being detained by Paterson police. That's just one...

It’s been a year since a man went missing after being detained by police in Paterson, New Jersey. Body camera footage from the police encounter is incomplete, frustrating his family and enraging the...

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