A New York Daily News Editorial
The impending purchase of body cameras by the NYPD has revealed that
many of the city’s elected leaders need a tutorial in the department’s
introduction of the devices.
Members of the City Council have both spread misinformation about the
selection of a vendor and baselessly undermined public trust in the
NYPD’s plan for equipping thousands of officers with the devices.
No sooner had the department announced its first choice in vendors,
subject to a public hearing, than Brooklyn Councilman Robert Cornegy,
co-chair of the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, blasted the selection as
incompetent — based provably on critical information fed to him by a
losing competitor hoping to get back into the race.
Still more troubling, Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, a member of the
Public Safety Committee, accused the NYPD of moving slowly in equipping
officers with cameras as a way to forestall accountability.
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