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Some Mass. Police Officers Already Sold On Use Of Body Cameras
BOSTON (CBS) – Since the protests in Ferguson there’s been a lot of talk about having police officers wear body cameras so their words and actions are recorded. Here in Massachusetts not everyone is...
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Challenges Loom As Charlie Baker Prepares To Take Office
BOSTON (AP) — With a month to go before he’s sworn in as Massachusetts’ 72nd governor, Republican Charlie Baker is facing an array of challenges — from narrowing a stubborn racial achievement gap in...
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I-Team: Mass. Police Departments Buying Body Cameras
BOSTON (CBS) – As calls for police body cameras increase around the country, the I-Team has learned some Massachusetts police departments are pushing forward with plans to put cameras on cops. The Bay...
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Keller @ Large: Boston NAACP President Talks Body Cameras
BOSTON (CBS) — Body cameras on police officers are “just a piece of the solution” for criminal justice reform, the president of Boston’s NAACP chapter says. “They’re not the answer – I think it’s a...
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Public Meetings Begin On Body Cameras For Boston Police Officers
BOSTON (CBS) — Should body cameras become standard equipment for Boston Police officers? The Boston City Council is looking for input on that question at a public community meeting Monday night at the...
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Boston Police Announce Details Of Body Camera Program
BOSTON (CBS/AP) — After months of testing, many of the nation’s big-city police forces–including the Boston Police Department–are planning to expand their use of body cameras by the summer, but the...
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Methuen Police Say New Body Cameras ‘About Being Transparent’
METHUEN (CBS) – A month and a half ago, Methuen police rolled out a new tool to fight crime – body cameras. They outfitted 47 officers with the cameras and have recorded over 7,000 incidents. This...
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Boston Police Body Camera Program Not Yet Underway
BOSTON (CBS) — Boston city councilor Andrea Campbell, chair of the committee on public safety and criminal justice, thought Boston Police would start their body camera pilot program by now. So what’s...
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Boston Police To Launch 6-Month Body Camera Program
BOSTON (CBS) – Mayor Marty Walsh and Boston Police Commissioner William Evans announced Tuesday the city has come to an agreement with the patrolmen’s association to launch a six-month body camera...
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Hearing To Focus On Body Cameras For Boston Police
BOSTON (AP) — Residents in Boston will have a chance to weigh in on the city’s plan to equip police officers with body cameras. A City Council committee is holding a hearing Thursday evening at the...
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Public Hearing On Police Body Cameras To Be Held Thursday Night
BOSTON (CBS) — A public hearing will be held Thursday night on a pilot program that would put body cameras on some Boston Police officers. Residents will get a chance to weigh in on the plan at a...
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Boston Police Aim To Unveil Body Camera Pilot Program By September 1
BOSTON (CBS) – The public and community activists weighed in, Thursday, at the first public meeting held since the Boston Police Department unveiled their policies for a police body camera pilot...
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Boston Police Order Body Cameras, Unclear If Program Will Start On Time
BOSTON (CBS) — The Boston Police Department has ordered 100 sets of body cameras and docking stations–but it remains to be seen whether or not the program will start on time. The department had hoped...
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Boston Police Body Camera Program Struggles To Find Volunteers
BOSTON (AP) — As a Sept. 1 rollout date looms for a plan to equip 100 Boston police officers with body cameras, not a single officer has volunteered, prompting Boston’s police commissioner to warn he...
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Boston Police To Assign Bodycams After No Officers Volunteer
BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Boston Police Commissioner William Evans says he plans to randomly assign body cameras to 100 officers by September after none of them volunteered for the pilot program. In a...
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Boston Police Body Camera Program Delayed By Union Lawsuit
BOSTON (AP) — The start of a program to equip 100 Boston police officers with body cameras has been delayed so a judge can consider a request from the city’s largest police union to temporarily halt...
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Patrolman’s Union President: Timing Of Boston Police Body Camera Program Was...
BOSTON (CBS/AP) — At a hearing Tuesday afternoon on the delayed Boston Police body camera program, BPD Commissioner William Evans said he felt he had the authority to assign 100 officers to wear the...
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Judge To Decide BPD Body Camera Police Union Dispute By Friday
BOSTON (CBS) — After a hearing on the dispute between the city and a police union over the Boston Police body camera program concluded its second day Wednesday, the judge in the case said he would have...
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Boston Police Command Staff Members Volunteer To Wear Body Cameras
BOSTON (CBS) – Hoping to convince other officers to do the same, a group of Boston Police Department command staff members announced Thursday that they will wear body cameras. Police Commissioner...
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Judge Rules Boston Police Body Camera Program Can Go Forward
BOSTON (CBS) – A Superior Court judge ruled that the Boston Police Department’s body camera program can move forward, denying a request by the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association. Suffolk Superior...
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