The history of video recording in policing is its kind of fascinating. We're all familiar with dash camps or incar cams that really came out in the mid de late eighties, but weren't popularized until the mid delate nineties. The first mobile cameras were introduced in two thousand six. By then, taser now acts on in the form of the taser cam. And has anyone been charged at this point in the death of ronald green, no.
Body cameras were supposed to bring greater transparency to law enforcement. The case of Ronald Greene suggests police departments are still learning how to use, and even abuse, a new tool.
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