Crime & Safety
Detroit Police to Test Body Cameras: Should Northville Cops be Wearing Them?
The 90-day program will help the department decide which system to use. Is this the future of law enforcement?
DSome Detroit police officers will begin wearing body cameras at the end of this week as part of a pilot program and could possibly lead to cameras being worn by all cops departmentwide, according to the Detroit News.
Twenty officers will be testing different camera systems for 90 days, the report stated. The department will then present its recommendations on which system to use in June to the city officials, the report added.
If the Detroit City Council signs off on body cams, the department would buy 415 cameras (at $300 to $500 a pop), with 30 cameras going to each precinct, the report stated. But it’s not the expense of the cameras that will hurt the department’s—and the city’s—bottom line.
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“The biggest cost wouldn’t be the cameras; it would be the storage of the video,” Detroit Mayor Duggan told the Detroit News.
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