Jim Kenyon: Norwich turning a blind eye to lack of police body cameras
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Modified: 4/3/2021 9:33:51 PM
In its infinite wisdom, the Norwich Selectboard has decided — for the time being — against equipping the town’s police officers with body cameras.
Talk about a lack of vision.
Body cameras are an important tool in the national drive to make law enforcement more accountable and transparent.
Communities — and states — that fail to equip their police officers with body cameras are “really not being responsible,” said George Ostler, a criminal defense lawyer for nearly 40 years whose office is in Norwich.