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South Carolina's main paper: "Columbia police wearing body cameras in entertainment district"
Front page:
COLUMBIA, SC — Columbia police are testing body-worn cameras as an attempt to win more public support and to show the embattled department is both transparent and is using innovative policing methods.
Chief Skip Holbrook said Friday that eight officers on foot patrols in the city’s entertainment districts wore small cameras for the first time Thursday night. Four more cameras have been purchased and were to be provided Friday night to other officers who also walk Five Points, the Vista and the Main Street districts.
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More recently, activists have asked whether the devices would have helped ease public tensions over the fatal shooting by a Ferguson, Mo., officer of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown. Civil liberties organizations have raised privacy concerns.
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“It levels the playing field and it shows that we’re being proactive and accountable,” he said. And “it would reduce the agency’s liability.” Sometimes, the chief said, images captured by citizens on their mobile phones do not fully depict an incident.
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http://www.thestate.com/2014/08/22/3634514_exclusive-columbia-police-wearing.html
Chief Skip Holbrook said Friday that eight officers on foot patrols in the city’s entertainment districts wore small cameras for the first time Thursday night. Four more cameras have been purchased and were to be provided Friday night to other officers who also walk Five Points, the Vista and the Main Street districts.
(....)
More recently, activists have asked whether the devices would have helped ease public tensions over the fatal shooting by a Ferguson, Mo., officer of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown. Civil liberties organizations have raised privacy concerns.
(....)
“It levels the playing field and it shows that we’re being proactive and accountable,” he said. And “it would reduce the agency’s liability.” Sometimes, the chief said, images captured by citizens on their mobile phones do not fully depict an incident.
(more)
http://www.thestate.com/2014/08/22/3634514_exclusive-columbia-police-wearing.html
