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# How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras
- URL: https://werd.io/how-police-have-undermined-the-promise-of-body-cameras/
- Published: 2023-12-14T15:08:42.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-14T15:08:42.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

Police body cams have turned out to be a sort of trust whitewashing: a way to demonstrate openness without the accompanying requirement to be open at all. In practice, they're a sham.

"Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill."

This is a characteristically deeply-reported piece from ProPublica which is both disappointing and unsurprising to hear. We need real police reform - we've always needed real police reform. Cameras were never going to cut it alone. [#Democracy](https://werd.io/tag/Democracy)

\[[Link](https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras)\]