police cameras

Police Cameras Are Important, But Useless Without Proper Use Policies

There’s no question that, had the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department mandated that its officers wear body cameras, use dashboard cameras or both, there would be far fewer mysteries about the events leading up to the shooting of Michael Brown. The department apparently had these cameras; it just hadn’t gotten around to using them. But simply […]

Greenville Police Reported A 32 Percent Drop In Crime

The monitor takes up a wall of the communications center, and it is always on. Dozens of screens show various angles of downtown Greenville, some panning, some fixed in place. Cars stopping at traffic lights, pedestrians crossing the street ? every second is recorded on police cameras and streamed back to this room. Trained on […]