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Judge: Fine-Tune NYPD Study of Body Cameras

By MARK TOOR
Posted 8/14/18

Perhaps police officers need to turn on their body cameras at the start of an encounter with a civilian, rather than waiting until evidence of criminality emerges, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres proposed earlier this month.

Judge Torres on Aug. 9 ordered the parties in the stop-and-frisk lawsuits, out of which the NYPD’s body-camera program sprung, to submit by Oct. 19 a proposal for studying the effect of filming earlier during such encounters.

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