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Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem says (apnews.com)

submitted 2 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Every Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday, in the latest fallout after the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of federal agents.

The news of the body cameras comes as Minneapolis has been the site of intense scrutiny over the conduct of federal officers after two U.S. citizens protesting immigration enforcement activities in the city were shot and killed.

It is the latest effort by the Trump administration to alleviate tensions after the shootings and show it is responding to calls for accountability.

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 97 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The problem isn't lack of evidence, it's lack of accountability and consequences. Adding another camera on the scene doesn't fix the issue.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This assholes won't actually use them correctly and conveniently "lose" the footage when needed, but generally having more cameras does actually help.

Yes the hard part of accountability is the elephant in the room, but I'm just saying, more cameras is always better than less.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We agree, I'm not against more cameras. I just don't see it changing anything when they'd already voluntarily pull out their personal device to record themselves killing someone.

[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Comprehensive reviews of body cam usage already put into question the overall efficacy of body cameras (https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12412 is the one I see cited most often, not sure if there are newer systematic reviews).

And that one also comes to the conclusion, especially regarding effects on use-of-force:

Ariel et al. (2016a) recently provided one nuanced explanation to these mixed findings. They discovered that when officers have more discretion in turning on their cameras, they tend to exhibit greater uses of force than officers who have less discretion regarding their BWCs [Body-worn Cameras]. In most of the use-of-force studies reviewed earlier, researchers did not track activation and therefore it was not clear to what extent Ariel et al.’s nuance is salient. If activation is related to use of force in these ways, however, consistently training, reinforcing, and supervising the implementation of mandatory policies may be needed to secure a positive effect of BWCs on reported uses of force

That, combined with the seemingly more gung-ho internal processes in DHS/ICE, also leads me to believe in few positive outcomes here -- especially with the 'editorial monopoly' in institutional hands.