“The ‘body-worn cameras’ are not mandated under a federal consent decree governing NOPD reforms that Mayor Mitch Landrieu signed last year with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Serpas said the body cameras are a major step that other police agencies across the country have embraced, both to protect the public and to forestall false complaints against officers. ‘Imagine a day in the city of New Orleans, in the not too distant future, where every single time we pull over a car, we ask somebody who they are or what they’re doing, that that entire incident is audiotaped and videotaped,’ Serpas said. ‘We’re very excited about it. It’s coming.'”
http://theadvocate.com/news/neworleans/neworleansnews/7156904-123/nopd-cops-will-start-wearing
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