Last year, Mayor Buttigieg implemented a body camera program in effort to ease tensions with the city's African American community. The devices would make officers accountable on the job and build public trust, he said. (1/4) NBCNewsThreads NBConPolicy
published in March by researchers at George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy said that the cameras haven't significantly changed officers' behavior and that it remained unclear whether they improve how citizens view police. Some smaller police departments have reportedly dropped their body camera programs, citing the cost of storing the videos.
"While BWCs can be useful tools, their utility is realized only when they are recording," a paper on the issue by the International Association of Chiefs of Police says.South Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski declined a request for comment. The head of the city's Board of Public Safety, which adopted the body camera policy in March 2018, did not return a call.
According to the authorities, the encounter began with a complaint of someone in dark clothes looking into cars in a parking lot. Sgt. Ryan O’Neill responded and began slowly driving around the lot, eventually confronting a man who was halfway out of an SUV.
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