Seattle police ended body camera analysis after footage caught officer mocking woman’s death
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Two Seattle police union leaders are under scrutiny after body camera footage caught one of them joking over the death of a young woman killed by a police cruiser.
Now, records obtained by Open Vallejo show that days after the conversation was recorded, one of the union officials implicated in the scandal was involved in canceling a contract for a body camera analysis service that risked flagging the unprofessional comments to higher-ups.
The Vallejo and Seattle police departments are the only law enforcement agencies to have ever terminated their contracts with Truleo, the Chicago-based company behind the software. In both cases, union officials campaigned to stop their department from using the technology after it allegedly risked surfacing problematic officer behavior. …
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Seems like the cameras are working as intended. Isn't Seattle PD still under consent decree? Seems DOJ started winding down the oversight just a few months ago: Agreement on Sustained Compliance
Yup, it's "winding down." It's probably obvious all over the country, that there's been no serious improvement. Seattle cops are as bad as cops anywhere, even Los Angeles. Even in this mess — the woman killed by a speeding cop without an emergency who then lied about the details, details that would've remained unquestioned if not for a tenacious local blog digging deep, and then the 'joke' between the union president and vice president, and then the cancellation of the bodycam oversight, all kept quiet.
I'm local, sorry.