Monday, 1 February 2016
Police Continually Damage Or Remove Audio From Dashcams
Story out of Chicago, Illinois:
On Friday, the lawyer for a white Chicago cop charged with murdering a black teenager said officer Jason Van Dyke has received death threats and he may seek to move the trial out of the city.
It was also revealed that Van Dyke's dashcam was not working the night the teen was killed, which has reportedly been happening a lot in Chicago.
There's something missing from a number of dashboard videos of fatal police shootings in Chicago: the sound.
And though almost all Chicago squad cars have video and audio recorders in the dashboards, an analysis of police maintenance logs by the website DNA Info Chicago indicates silent tape is not unusual.
The analysis -- which was not disputed by police officials -- found microphones stashed in glove boxes, batteries removed and antennas damaged. On purpose. Cont. (Video - Autoplay)
Story from - CBS News
Image from - Wikimedia Commons
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