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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouston Breaking: Money approved for HCSO, HPD Body Cams.
http://abc13.com/news/money-for-hpd-hcso-body-cams-could-be-approved-today/438346/snip-
Harris County commissioners unanimously approved funding to buy body cameras for local law enforcement.
On Friday, the Harris County District Attorney's Office announced it would give $1.9 million to the Houston Police Department and the Harris County Sheriff's Office to help purchase body cameras. The goal to record interactions between officers and civilians, and create more of an openness between law enforcement and the public.
"Body cameras are not going to solve all of our problems, but from a prosecutor's perspective, it gives us a vital piece of evidence, more information with which to seek the truth and top seek justice which is our mission," said Harris County DA Devon Anderson.
The funding for the body cameras will come from forfeiture assets collected by the DA's office.
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Houston Breaking: Money approved for HCSO, HPD Body Cams. (Original Post)
ScreamingMeemie
Dec 2014
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irisblue
(32,979 posts)1. GOOD
and I'm surprised as well.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)2. Because no city wants to be the next Ferguson/New York.
Call me cynical but I doubt Houston would have sprung for the money and risked the oversight of police without that fear.
Still, it is a GOOD thing.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)3. Now we need the Federal gov to require this of all employees who engage the public
BLM, Park Rangers, Fish and Wildlife......and any hired guns, private-'for profit' contractors.
Americans have a right to observe their Gov., local and Federal at work. They work for us.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)4. Yeah