LAPD considering stronger body camera policy in light of recent scandals

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LAPD considering stronger body camera policy in light of recent scandals
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The Los Angeles Police Department is considering changing department policy to increase random reviews of body camera recordings.

The Los Angeles Police Department is considering changing department policy to increase random reviews of body camera recordings that don’t involve arrests or the use of force, according to an email from Chief Michel Moore to his senior staff. Moore wrote that “it’s in our best interest to strengthen and reinforce” the number of incidents involving patrol and gang officers that are reviewed roughly every 30 days, “which more closely aligns with other agencies.

failed for years to develop clear policies on the camera issue despite earlier reports that they were a chronic problem. The scope of the scandal is still unclear, but Mission Division gang unit officers have been accused of making illegal stops and theft, while failing to document some of their encounters with the public. The department is seeking to fire at least two of the involved officers, who are also facing criminal charges.

's constitutional policing director, to connect with police union president Craig Lally “what we are finding with other agencies’ access, inspection, audits and review practices in regards to BWV captures.” The League said it negotiated changes to camera guidelines in its latest contract, approved in August, which also provides raises and bonuses for the rank-and-file.

announced it was partnering with academic researchers to use artificial intelligence to study how officers speak to the public. But department officials have signaled the findings would be used solely for training purposes — to ensure, for instance, that officers aren’t rude and that they explain their actions when stopping people. That means misconduct uncovered would be unlikely to lead to discipline.

rules don’t explicitly require supervisors to check body camera footage after they find a “deviation in the comments of report,” and until recently, the report said, the department’s computer system couldn’t track whether such a review had been done. The report said the department should consider studying the “feasibility” of adding to the workload of patrol supervisors, who are already tasked with the “voluminous work of reviewing ...

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