WTF- NYPD paid extra to wear body cameras?

[packman]

"New York City police officers are about to be paid more for holding themselves accountable.

As part of sweeping contract negotiations between the city and its largest police union, the city is offering a 1 percent pay increase to those officers required to wear body cameras, according to The New York Post.

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has argued that body cameras are an “encumbrance” and that officers should be paid more if they’re forced to endure body-cam training and the stress of being recorded. In the meantime, the NYPD is still delaying its compliance with a federal court order from 2013 that requires the city to implement a body camera program.

That delay ends next year. One thousand body cameras will be deployed in 201"


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nypd-body-cameras-more-pay_us_5863fe75e4b0eb586487da4f

[DetlefK]

1. Do they still get the extra-pay if they simply turn them off before they shoot someone?

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I was gonna ask if they get extra for turning them ON....

Nice to have a union, it seems.