South Brooklyn DSA

The only NYPD body camera footage released to date has been edited & packaged propaganda used to exonerate cops after bad acts. Body cams are a multi-million dollar (taxpayer funded) effort to eliminate transparency & public accountability of NYPD, sold as “police reform.”

noooooo not quite. Body cams are an effort to increase transparency and accountability that have not caught up to the corruption of police. Next comes laws about unedited footage and handling of said footage.

Body cams were marketed to the public as a project that would address police corruption from the start. They haven't and they won't because that's just their marketing, not their purpose.

We probably agree on: - police are corrupt af + lie about evidence - police should wear body cams - that footage should be accessible to the public after a reasonable review by an impartial third party - police forces don't have enough external accountability for misconduct

we also probably agree that more work is needed to change police policy around corruption. Is your solution to these problems that we should remove body cams? Do you think the public would be better off if they were not being used?

The reforms that have been passed are half-measures that make rich people richer and placate the public. It's time for the funding to go to the people hardest hit by brutal policing, and it's time for the policy to be dictated by them.