Police unions in Seattle and Vallejo successfully advocated ending their departments’ body-camera analysis programs after the software allegedly risked surfacing problematic officer behavior.

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Two Seattle police union leaders are under scrutiny after body camera footage caught one of them joking over the death of a young woman killed by a police cruiser.

Now, records obtained by Open Vallejo show that days after the conversation was recorded, one of the union officials implicated in the scandal was involved in canceling a contract for a body camera analysis service that risked flagging the unprofessional comments to higher-ups.

The Vallejo and Seattle police departments are the only law enforcement agencies to have ever terminated their contracts with Truleo, the Chicago-based company behind the software. In both cases, union officials campaigned to stop their department from using the technology after it allegedly risked surfacing problematic officer behavior. …

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      2 年前

      Yup, it’s “winding down.” It’s probably obvious all over the country, that there’s been no serious improvement. Seattle cops are as bad as cops anywhere, even Los Angeles. Even in this mess — the woman killed by a speeding cop without an emergency who then lied about the details, details that would’ve remained unquestioned if not for a tenacious local blog digging deep, and then the ‘joke’ between the union president and vice president, and then the cancellation of the bodycam oversight, all kept quiet.

      I’m local, sorry.