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A Big Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations
"“This is the most important empirical study on the impact of police body-worn cameras to date,” said Harlan Yu from Upturn, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit…
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Body cameras are only as effective as the policies that govern them
Last month, the city of St. Louis unanimously opted to accept a year of free body-worn cameras from Axon, formerly known as TASER and the nation’s largest camer…
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Police Chief Claims He 'Misspoke' After Body Cam Contradicts Account of Black Teen's Killing
"Harlan Yu, a tech policy researcher and co-author of the Body Worn Camera scorecard, a 2016 report rating body camera policies for different police depart…
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Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos "To Anticipate Criminal Activity"
"This raw data fed into video analytics systems is itself captured and created by the police, said Elizabeth Joh, a law professor and policing expert at th…
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Should officers be allowed to view body cam videos? Or does it give them unfair advantage?
"Harlan Yu of Upturn Research has been studying body cameras and says they are not living up to the public’s expectations. “What Seattle and other police…
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Civil Rights Lawyers Plan to Challenge New York’s Body-Camera Program
"Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, a consulting firm that evaluates police body-camera policies on a range of measures, agreed. “Being the largest departm…
Good cop cameras, bad rules: The NYPD's body-cam guidelines need fixing
Last summer, the NYPD asked New Yorkers what rules should apply to the body-worn cameras that police will soon begin wearing. The response was overwhelming: Mor…
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Axon Offers Free Body Cameras To Police For A Year, But Some Critics Find The Deal 'Troubling'
"Interview Highlights: Elizabeth Joh On her qualms about one company giving out these cameras "I wouldn't say I'm not a big fan, but I think…
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Taser’s Latest Body Cams Push Is Unregulated, Unprecedented, and Disturbing
"“Axon’s offer creates a perverse incentive for departments to rush into deploying body worn cameras without taking the necessary time to engage with the c…
Free Police Body Cameras Come With a Price
On Wednesday, Taser International announced it is changing its name to Axon—and that it is offering every police department in the United States free body camer…
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Conundrum stalling Seattle’s body-cam policy
"Because of the sensitivity of the issue, the city attorney didn’t want to talk about it on the record. Harlan Yu was open to discussing the issue, however…
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Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines
"“For many of these systems, the inclusion of real-time face recognition is just a software update away,” said Harlan Yu, co-author of a report on body cam…