Body Cameras

A patrol officer in West Valley City, Utah, starts a body camera recording by pressing a button on his chest in March 2015. The West Valley City Police Department issued 190 Axon Flex body cameras for all its sworn officers to wear.

Taser Changes Its Name To Axon And Offers Free Body Cameras For Police

4:44pm April 07, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Axon, which is the name of the company's line of body cameras, says it will send law enforcement agencies one body camera per sworn officer to use for a year.

The street where Jonathan Ferrell was shot by police in September 2013.

National

Police Videos Aren't Going Away. How Can We Learn From Them?

8:02am March 25, 2017

In the era of body cameras and cellphones, the act of seeing police do their job is radically altering the public-police relationship, and changing civilian and police behavior and perceptions alike.

The New Orleans Police Department was one of the first big police departments in the U.S. to embrace the use of body cameras.

National

New Orleans' Police Use Of Body Cameras Brings Benefits And New Burdens

9:31am March 03, 2017

by Martin Kaste

The technology has improved police conduct and led to a drop in certain types of cases. But the body cams have added many extra hours of work watching videos for police and public defenders.

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Dejuan Yourse is interviewed by police Officers Charlotte Jackson and Travis Cole in Greensboro, N.C., on June 17.

What Went Wrong — A Police Video Deconstructed

1:13pm October 18, 2016

by Martin Kaste

What's striking about all the controversial police videos we've covered is how different they can look to people, depending on their backgrounds. We asked several people to watch the video, each one separately, and then added their observations as "pop-up" quotes in the video.

National

What Went Wrong — A Police Video Deconstructed

9:58am October 18, 2016

by Martin Kaste

Body camera footage shows two police officers responding to a routine call about a possible burglary in North Carolina. The encounter comes to a bad end, but what's fascinating is how it gets there.

The village of Funningur is one of the scenic delights of the Faroe Islands. The archipelago's tourist board has a campaign for better Google Street View mapping called SheepView 360.

'Sheep View' Campaign Calls On Google To Photograph Roads In Faroe Islands

8:23pm July 15, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

The Faroe Islands tourism board launched a campaign called Sheep View 360, shot by attaching cameras to some of the archipelago's many sheep.

The Urban Institute has produced a state-by-state breakdown of local laws governing videos recorded by police body cameras. See the interactive feature.

National

Piecing Together America's Patchwork Quilt Of Body Cam Laws

8:18am February 25, 2016

by Martin Kaste

Since the protests in Ferguson, Mo., police departments have rushed to adopt body cameras. But local laws governing their use are all over the map. See the laws in your state.

Daily News

Morning Headlines: Friday, November 6, 2015

6:27am November 06, 2015

by Neal Charnoff

Carson, Clinton, Cooper Lead In Elon Poll

Police body cameras are seen on a mannequin at an exhibit booth by manufacturer Wolfcom at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago, on Oct. 26.

National

Stealth Mode? Built-in Monitor? Not All Body Cameras Are Created Equal

6:46pm October 30, 2015

by Martin Kaste

Police shopping for body cameras face a dizzying array of features. And it's more than just technological gee-whiz-ery: the type of camera has a profound effect on how it's used and for whose benefit.

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Crime

Greensboro Police Body Cameras Lead To More Internal Complaints

11:38am June 08, 2015

by Neal Charnoff

Complaints about the Greensboro Police Department are up, but not from the public. The complaints are coming from within the department.

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