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Chicago Police Have Been Sabotaging Their Own Dashboard Cameras on Purpose
Chicago Police Have Been Sabotaging Their Own Dashboard Cameras on Purpose
Zak Cheney-Rice,Mic 2 hours 22 minutes ago
Just when you thought the scandal-ridden Chicago Police
Department was ready to collapse under the weight of its own idiocy, it
goes and does something like this. According to DNA Info, 80%
of dashboard cameras in CPD patrol vehicles don't record audio — either
because officers are activating them incorrectly, or because
they're intentionally damaging or concealing them.
This
troubling revelation sheds light on what happened the night of Oct. 20,
2014, when Officer Jason Van Dyke — who was recently released on bond after being charged with first-degree murder — shot and killed a 17-year-old, unarmed black boy named Laquan McDonald. The incident was recorded by multiple police dash cameras, but many of them did not record audio, including Van Dyke's.
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