Contract for NYPD Body Cameras Provokes Protest in the City Council

 

By Will Bredderman and Madina Toure 

The NYPD’s plan to purchase its first wave of police body cameras from the company VieVu has aroused the ire of leaders in the Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, who point to technical problems with the manufacturer’s products in Oakland and Cincinnati.

Brooklyn Councilman Robert Cornegy, co-chair of the BLAC, reached out to the Observer shortly after word surfaced in the Daily News that VieVu had won the bidding process for the recording devices. He alluded to an incident reported in Oakland last month, in which a police sergeant testified in a murder trial that his department’s VieVu system lost a quarter of all body cam footage during a 2014 software upgrade. 

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Source: Observer - Politics (via The Empire Report)