Dr. Hans Menos, the Vice President of the Triage Response Team at the Center for Policing Equity (CPE), spoke with ProPublica about the false promise of accountability through the use of body work camera requirements in law enforcement. The below is an excerpt from the article:
The Justice Department allocated millions to help departments across the country outfit officers with the technology.
“They were wholly sold as an accountability tool to reassure people that police would be held accountable for their actions or for what they are doing while operating under the powers of the state,” said Hans Menos, who advises police departments with the Center for Policing Equity and formerly headed the Police Advisory Commission in Philadelphia, an early adopter of body cameras. “If we don’t provide that level of transparency, what we’ve really done is made people pay for something that they don’t get any tangible benefit out of.”
Read the full article at ProPublica.org.