NYPD demonstrating the use of body cameras at the Police Academy in Queens.

Disputing the Details for the NYPD Body Cameras

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 24, 2017

Jin Hee Lee, deputy director of litigation of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and co-lead counsel in Davis, et al. v. City of New York and New York City Housing Authority, and Joo-Hyun Kang, director of Communities United for Police Reform, talk about some of the objections to the NYPD's plan for the body camera pilot program slated to start this week and the legal challenge that's been filed to change it.

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