"When you pass a law, you create legality where there wasn’t,” says Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice, a Bay Area nonprofit. “We create the legal framework where they can be legally abused.”
Cyril is opposed to police body cameras, and is skeptical that use policies, such as those arbitrated through CCOPS legislation, will be enough to rein in the abuse of surveillance in over-policed communities.
“Whether or not you have a use policy, does not mean there’s a way to enforce a use policy,” Cyril says."
- Date Published:06/14/2017
- Original Publication:The Verge