{"id":14556,"date":"2014-12-06T18:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14556"},"modified":"2014-12-06T18:30:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T23:30:32","slug":"ny-times-body-cameras-worn-by-police-officers-are-no-safeguard-of-truth-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14556","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: Body Cameras Worn by Police Officers Are No \u2018Safeguard of Truth,\u2019 Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/07\/nyregion\/body-cameras-worn-by-police-officers-are-no-'safeguard-of-truth'-experts-say.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news\">Body Cameras Worn by Police Officers Are No \u2018Safeguard of Truth,\u2019 Experts Say<\/a> by Vivian Yee and Kirk Johnson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Brown\u2019s family, on the night of the Ferguson grand jury decision, called for all police in the United States to wear body cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bill de Blasio, in announcing that some of New York\u2019s police officers would begin wearing them, said \u201cbody cameras are one of the ways to create a real sense of transparency and accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And on Monday, President Obama said he would request $75 million in federal funds to distribute 50,000 body cameras to police departments nationwide, saying they would improve police relations with the public.<\/p>\n<p>But even as departments have started adopting the technology, questions remain about how much it can actually prevent violent encounters with citizens or clarify the boundaries of appropriate police response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: Body Cameras Worn by Police Officers Are No \u2018Safeguard of Truth,\u2019 Experts Say by Vivian Yee and Kirk Johnson: Michael Brown\u2019s family, on the night of the Ferguson grand jury decision, called for all police in the United &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14556\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14557,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556\/revisions\/14557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}