{"id":36140,"date":"2019-01-21T22:03:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T03:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36140"},"modified":"2019-01-21T22:03:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T03:03:03","slug":"wapo-some-u-s-police-departments-dump-body-camera-programs-amid-high-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36140","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Some U.S. police departments dump body-camera programs amid high costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/some-us-police-departments-dump-body-camera-programs-amid-high-costs\/2019\/01\/21\/991f0e66-03ad-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?utm_term=.e6b50a28bffe\">Some U.S. police departments dump body-camera programs amid high costs<\/a> By Kimberly Kindy:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When East Dundee, a tiny suburb of Chicago, ordered body cameras for its 17 police officers, Terry Mee, the police chief at the time, told local reporters the devices\u00ad would promote \u201cofficer safety\u201d and \u201cpositive interaction with the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But before a single incident could be recorded in the village of 3,000 people, Mee retired, and the new chief, George Carpenter, persuaded the Village Board in February to cancel the program, arguing that the $20,000 annual fee for the cameras and video storage couldn\u2019t be justified amid budget concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Body cameras \u201care wonderful for winning public trust,\u201d Carpenter said. \u201cBut it\u2019s expensive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Some U.S. police departments dump body-camera programs amid high costs By Kimberly Kindy:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36141,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36140\/revisions\/36141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}