Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Make the NYPD Adopt On-Body Cameras


There is a petition that we need you to sign. It will prompt the new mayor of New York to consider mandatory on-body cameras on every police officer. We need to make this mandatory across the United States but small steps can make huge changes.

Petition excerpts:  There is a simple way to make a dramatic change in police misconduct: require officers to wear on-body cameras that record their interactions.... Other police departments are using on-body cameras with amazing success. In the first year after the Rialto Police Department in California adopted the cameras in 2012, the number of complaints filed against officers fell by 88 percent compared with the last year. More importantly, the use of force by officers fell by almost 60 percent.

Help us usher in police reform and sign the bill:
https://www.change.org/petitions/bill-de-blasio-make-the-nypd-adopt-on-body-cameras