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How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras (www.propublica.org)
submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
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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.

When Barbara and Belvett Richards learned that the police had killed their son, they couldn’t understand it. How, on that September day in 2017, did their youngest child come to be shot in his own apartment by officers from the New York Police Department?

Miguel Richards, who was 31, grew up in Jamaica and had moved to New York about a year earlier after coming to the United States through a work-study program. His father’s friend gave him a job doing office work, and he rented a room in the Bronx. But he started to struggle, becoming reclusive and skipping days of work. His mother, with whom he was particularly close, pleaded with him to return to Jamaica. “It’s as if I sensed something was going to happen,” she says. “I was calling him, calling him, calling him: ‘Miguel, come home. Come home.’”

His parents knew he had never been violent, had never been arrested and had never had any issues with the police. What details they managed to gather came from the Bronx district attorney: Richards’ landlord, who hadn’t seen him for weeks, asked the police to check on him. The officers who responded found Richards standing still in his own bedroom, holding a small folding knife. And 15 minutes later, they shot him.

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago

It's not just refusal to release footage. You also get cameras that police 'forget' to turn on, cameras that mysteriously 'break' or malfunction, storage servers that 'accidentally' delete data. My favorite was some footage I saw during the George Floyd protests, where the camera-wearing cop had obviously thought about and practiced his maneuver because during the entire incident his hands were always somehow just ever-so-conveniently blocking the camera in various ways.