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Body Cams: Who Actually Controls the Footage?
Police body worn cameras are in your city, on the officers you interact with, recording everything. In Canada, if you want to see footage that documents you, you file a freedom of information request and wait. The officer who recorded you reviews it whenever they want. That asymmetry is not a bug someone is working to fix. It's how the policy is written.
Chris Schneider spent years tracking how "transparency" and "accountability" became the defining language around body cams, and found that the research literature on whether cameras actually change police behavior is inconclusive. Sometimes…
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