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Civil Rights Groups: Police Are Making Little Progress on Improving Body Cam Policies

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"“By allowing officers to review footage as they write their initial incident report, it makes it easier for them to act for the camera and create multiple leaps about what truly happened,” said Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn, a nonprofit technology and social justice reasearch firm based in Washington, D.C., citing the findings in The Illusion of Accuracy: How Body-Worn Camera Footage Can Distort Evidence, also released Tuesday."

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