The benefits of police body cams are a myth

The benefits of police body cams are a myth

Harlan Yu Contributor Harlan Yu is the executive director of Upturn and one of the primary authors of the Police Body-Worn Cameras Policy Scorecard. In the three years since Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, police body-worn cameras have been sold to the public as a tool that would primarily deter police misconduct. One of …