The NYPD’s entire patrol force will be equipped with body cameras by the end of the year, one year earlier than previously projected, Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced Jan. 30.
The announcement drew an immediate blast from Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch, who was not convinced that the program had value. The union called it a “huge expenditure for questionable results.”
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