""One of the main selling points for body-worn cameras is their promise to bring transparency and accountability to police community interactions," says Harlan Yu, a founder of Upturn, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that provides analysis to policymakers, and the author of a recent national "scorecard" on body-worn camera policies. But the cameras, he says, "don't automatically provide accountability."
Yu points at recent high-profile failures by police to record deadly encounters. "And these are just the incidents that we know about because someone was shot and killed.""
- Date Published:10/27/2016
- Original Publication:Fast Company