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class="column1"> <div class="column_inner"> <div class="blog_holder blog_single"> <article id="post-21375" class="post-21375 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-in-the-news category-legalethical category-safety-security category-technology-equipment tag-bodycams tag-police-brutality tag-police-violence tag-video4change"> <div class="post_image"> <a href="https://technology.witness.org/2016/08/the-nypd-wants-to-know-your-thoughts-on-bodycams-kind-of/" title="The NYPD Wants to Know Your Thoughts on Bodycams (Kind of)"> <img width="667" height="350" src="https://technology.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2016/08/Bodycam_670x350.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://technology.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2016/08/Bodycam_670x350.jpg 667w, https://technology.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2016/08/Bodycam_670x350-300x157.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post_text"> <div class="post_description"> <span class="post_infos"> <p>Published <span class="month">August, 2016</span> by <a class="post_author" href="https://technology.witness.org/author/morganhargrave/">Morgan Hargrave</a> in <a href="https://technology.witness.org/category/in-the-news/" rel="category tag">In the News</a>, <a href="https://technology.witness.org/category/legalethical/" rel="category tag">Legal/Ethical</a>, <a href="https://technology.witness.org/category/safety-security/" rel="category tag">Safety & Security</a>, <a href="https://technology.witness.org/category/technology-equipment/" rel="category tag">Technology / Equipment</a> </p> </span> </div> <h2>The NYPD Wants to Know Your Thoughts on Bodycams (Kind of)</h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">At WITNESS we are all in on the power of video. After almost 25 years in existence, we’ve come to believe that how and why a video is created is just as important as what it captures. That’s why we’ve watched closely as military and police departments around the world have increasingly integrated video into their operations by adopting body-worn cameras (“bodycams”). Now it’s the largest police force in the US, </span><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/nypd-wrapping-up-body-camera-pilot-program-1456916402" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">New York City</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400">that</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> is expanding its use of bodycams, from about 50 officers with cameras in the last two years to 1,000 this summer, with the plan to eventually roll out something like 20,000 cameras citywide. And this time they’re asking New Yorkers for their </span><span style="font-weight: 400"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ian-head-write-rules-nypd-body-cameras-article-1.2701702" target="_blank">input</a> by Sunday, August 7</span><span style="font-weight: 400">, so we’re joining advocates and residents around the city to voice our opinion. There are three main points we are going to emphasize in our comments.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">First, we note that this process is far from sufficient. An online-only form put out by a law school and with unclear follow-up is not how you get representative feedback from the people most likely to end up being filmed. This exact point was one of the first things Communities United for Police Reform put forward in their </span><a href="http://changethenypd.org/news/cpr-leaders-present-testimony-use-body-worn-cameras-police" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">testimony</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> last year: “Communities who are directly impacted by discriminatory and abusive policing must have meaningful and structured input in the development, implementation & evaluation of any body worn camera program.” No one is better placed to answer the questions that will determine whether more video by police leads to more justice (or just more surveillance) than those who are the most policed. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Second, our work with video has taught us that it is always just one piece of a larger equation – for us, whether footage is used as advocacy or evidence, it’s effective not as a primary strategy on its own but as an asset that bolsters existing organizing, strategy, and legitimacy. The same is true here, and it’s important that bodycams are framed within a larger context so as to avoid preempting or distracting from discussion of the real reforms that are needed at the NYPD and nationwide. You can’t fix a political problem with a technical solution, and even a perfect bodycams program – if there is such a thing – wouldn’t be satisfactory. For example, the bodycams pilots in New York grew out of a court order following lawsuits challenging stop-and-frisk </span><a href="https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/floyd-et-al-v-city-new-york-et-al" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">practices</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, and today New Yorkers are still fighting for common sense reforms to stop-and-frisk like the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RightToKnowAct&src=tyah" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">Right to Know Act</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. And while the NYPD is ramping up their use of video, a real push for accountability would include a corresponding call for the public to pull out their own cameras during police interactions; an NYPD that wanted to be held accountable would be begging the public to film and setting up processes for reviewing civilian-shot footage rather than </span><a href="http://gothamist.com/2016/05/26/bratton_police_copwatch.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">discouraging</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> citizen media and </span><a href="http://gothamist.com/2016/03/17/nypd_arrest_video_edp.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">arresting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> those who assert their right to record.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Finally, on to the question at hand: how can bodycams aid in accountability and be more than video by police and for police? A group of grassroots media organizations </span><a href="http://action.mag-net.org/nypd_body_cam_letter?utm_campaign=nypdbodycam&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cmj"><span style="font-weight: 400">pointed out</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> three ways the proposed policy in New York falls short:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">It allows officers to view footage of incidents before making any official statement, even in incidents when the officer used deadly force.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">It does not provide complainants access to the footage relevant to their complaint.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">There are no safeguards against cameras becoming a tool for surveillance, such as limits on the use of biometric technologies like facial recognition software.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Those three points sync with the well-documented </span><a href="https://www.bwcscorecard.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">BWC Policy Scorecard</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> published by a range of civil rights groups (and just updated this month). Of the eight issue areas they’ve identified, New York falls short on five, including the three points MAG-Net highlighted above. Additionally the scorecard points out a lack of clarity on retention of footage and the lack of a published policy governing the use of the cameras, the latter of which will hopefully be remedied at the end of this review process. One question that the NYPD survey doesn’t ask and isn’t addressed in the scorecard has to do with what happens if an officer doesn’t follow the regulations; what kind of disciplinary action will be taken if an officer doesn’t record an interaction where they are accused of using excessive force, for example?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Those are our initial thoughts, and now it’s your turn to weigh in. If you’re a New Yorker, submit comments or answer the NYPD survey </span><a href="https://policingproject.org/nypd-body-worn-camera-feedback/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. If you’re not, make sure your friends in New York know about this process, and make sure you’re engaged with your own city, because most major cities in the US, and many others around the world, are at least considering the use of bodycams.</span></p> <p>For additional reading:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/10/police-body-cameras-cannot-replace-power-citizen-witnesses" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">See more of our thoughts about how bodycams can never replace the value of citizen witnessing.</span></a></li> <li><a href="https://lab.witness.org/projects/police-violence-in-the-united-states/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">Explore our analysis and resources on police violence in the US.</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">Read an overview of the proposed NYPD policy </span><a href="https://policingproject.org/nypd-body-worn-camera-proposed-policy-fact-sheet/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> and the full policy </span><a href="https://policingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/NYPD-BWC-Draft-Policy.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> (pdf).</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><a href="https://policingproject.org/nypd-body-worn-camera-feedback/" target="_blank">Submit your thoughts about the NYPD’s use of bodycams</a>.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><a href="https://www.bwcscorecard.org/">See how the fifty largest cities in the US fare on the BWC Policy Scorecard</a>.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><a href="http://action.mag-net.org/nypd_body_cam_letter?utm_campaign=nypdbodycam&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cmj" target="_blank">Join the MAG-net open letter to the NYPD</a>.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">Follow groups like the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/theCCR" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">Center for Constitutional Rights</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/changethenypd" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">Communities United for Police Reform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, and the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mvmt4bl?lang=en" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">Movement for Black Lives</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> to see what they’re saying about bodycams and NYPD reform.</span></li> </ul> <p><em>Featured image via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/northcharleston/25763393046/in/photolist-Fk4mac-ELCHKU-EguSgq-EgQsMv-F9npH1-FfC8aQ-F9wqDa-FfC9F5-866S4i-riow4V" target="_blank">North Charleston</a> on Flickr</em>.</p> <div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this:</h3><div class="sd-content"><ul><li class="share-facebook"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-shared="sharing-facebook-21375" class="share-facebook sd-button share-icon" href="https://technology.witness.org/2016/08/the-nypd-wants-to-know-your-thoughts-on-bodycams-kind-of/?share=facebook" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Facebook" ><span>Facebook</span></a></li><li class="share-x"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-shared="sharing-x-21375" class="share-x sd-button share-icon" href="https://technology.witness.org/2016/08/the-nypd-wants-to-know-your-thoughts-on-bodycams-kind-of/?share=x" target="_blank" title="Click to share on X" ><span>X</span></a></li><li class="share-end"></li></ul></div></div></div> </div> <div class="single_tags"> <h4>TAGS </h4> <a href="https://technology.witness.org/tag/bodycams/" rel="tag">Bodycams</a><a href="https://technology.witness.org/tag/police-brutality/" rel="tag">police brutality</a><a href="https://technology.witness.org/tag/police-violence/" rel="tag">police violence</a><a href="https://technology.witness.org/tag/video4change/" rel="tag">video4change</a> </div> </article> <div class="blog_social_and_comments"> <div class="blog_single_social"> <span class="blog_like"> <a href="#" class="qode-like" id="qode-like-21375" title="Like this"><i class="icon-heart icon-large"></i><span class="qode-like-count">0</span></a> </span> <div class="blog_share"><span class="social_share_holder"><span class="social_share_icon"></span><div class="social_share_dropdown"><ul><li class="share_title"><span>Share on</span></li><li class="facebook_share"><a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&p[title]=The NYPD Wants to Know Your Thoughts on Bodycams (Kind of)&p[summary]=Many police departments in the US, including the NYPD, are expanding their use of bodycams. 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