ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department is launching the first phase of a plan to equip 22,000 officers with body cameras.
The initiative was set to begin Thursday with police brass attending a roll call for camera-wearing officers at a Manhattan precinct. The department expects to deploy 1,200 cameras around the city in the next few weeks.
The NYPD recently finalized guidelines on using the devices. Rules require officers to turn on their cameras when making arrests, pursuing criminal suspects or dealing with crime scenes.
The city agreed to start using the cameras following a 2013 federal court decision finding that the NYPD had wrongly targeted black and Hispanic men with its stop-and-frisk tactics.
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Video tweet:
NYPD Officers from the @NYPD34Pct walk to their cars wearing body cameras for the first time. pic.twitter.com/WKtZ017J4V
— NYC Mayor’s Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) April 27, 2017
Public information video about the pilot test of 1,2000 bodycams launched today: