The #DEA Once Touted #BodyCameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them.
The email said the agency made the change to be "consistent" with a Trump #executiveorder rescinding the 2022 requirement that all federal #lawenforcement agents use body cameras. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies within the Justice Department -- #USMarshals and #ATF -- are still requiring body cameras, according to their spokespeople.
https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-enforcement-administration-ends-body-camera-program-trump

Chatbots offer cops the “ultimate out” to spin police reports, expert says - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)

If you were sus... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2046081 #artificialintelligence #policetechnology #aiassistant #bodycameras #aichatbots #policetech #features #chatbots #draftone #policy #axon

Do you know why we got #police #BodyCameras so quickly after police officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown? #Accountability was the story they sold us. The reality, it seems, was far more sinister.

From the Yale Journal of Law & Liberation: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/f/4764/files/2024/07/Alec-Karakatsanis_The-Body-Camera-FINAL.pdf (PDF)

Great piece by Alec Karakatsanis

The Body Camera: The Language of our Dreams

By situating the rise of the police body camera within its actual legal, political, and economic contexts, I suggest that the body camera is one of the most important Trojan horses in contemporary U.S. history. What follows is a case study of how the police bureaucracy used its own violence as the perfect alibi to get well-meaning people who lacked sufficient information to support greater police procurement budgets, more advanced and efficient technologies of control and incarceration, an explosion of profit for a small group of companies, and an expansion of the capacity of the government to surveil us. And most remarkably: All of it happened under the guise of making the police bureaucracy more “accountable” and “transparent."

#Police #Abolition #ACAB #BodyCameras

https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/f/4764/files/2024/07/Alec-Karakatsanis_The-Body-Camera-FINAL.pdf

#Bodycam Maker #Axon Is on a Mission to Surveil America with #AI
Axon, maker of #Tasers and #police #bodycameras, acquired AI #surveillance company #Fusus amid a push into retail and healthcare. This “expands and deepens” companies’ so-called real time capabilities. Fusus operates what it calls “real time crime centers (RTCC)” which allow police and other agencies to analyze a wide array of video sources at single point and apply AI that detects objects & people. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bwp4/axon-acquires-fusus-ai-surveillance-retail-healthcare #privacy

Documentation of #Crimes Against #Humanity. On the morning of October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel from #Gaza in a massive surprise #terrorist attack against civilians. Gallery - photos real time videos Hamas’ terrorists recorded their #barbaric #atrocities on #bodycameras #cellphones to proudly display their crimes and gloat about them. Many of these #cameras were recovered from neutralized terrorists. Now whole world can see Hamas’ unfathomable savagery. https://saturday-october-seven.com/ #sociamedia

How #Police Have Undermined the Promise of #BodyCameras
Police have no right to privacy when executing their public duties, and #bodycams were supposed to keep everyone honest and accountable: both the #cops and those they were interacting with. In practice, the footage is routinely withheld to prevent the public challenging or even knowing about #policemisconduct, while it is quickly edited and filtered through friendly media to exonerate officers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras #lawenforcement #LEO

How Police Have Undermined the Promise of #BodyCameras Hundreds of millions in #taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in #transparency and #accountability. Instead, #police departments routinely refuse to release #footage — even when officers kill. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras #LegalResearch #CivilLiberties