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Fifteen years after the first police department in San Diego County experimented with body-worn cameras, and 10 years after protests in Ferguson, Missouri, spurred national interest, the technology has become vital to modern-day law enforcement operations.
“This incident raises disturbing questions about the specific protocols used by BPD when an officer discharges their weapon in the line of duty,” ACLU Executive Director Leo Morales said.
More than six years after the Baltimore County Police Department started a body camera program, roughly 20% of its officers, corporals, sergeants and lieutenants don’t have the devices.