Release Body Cam Footage
Aug 21, 2020
3 minutes
ALEC WARD
“We pay attention when a sports hero gets roughed up or when a video camera films a beating. What happens during the thousands of routine interactions between the police and average folks?”
RICK HENDERSON
“L.A., LAWLESS”
MAY 1991
THERE’S AN EMERGING consensus within the broad police reform movement in the United States that the proliferation of body-worn police cameras—the most significant legacy of the last round of protests against police violence—has been more or less a failed experiment. The complaints about violent, high-handed police conduct that sent protestors into
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