EDITORIAL: Police body cameras: Who should control the footage?

After an odyssey of foot-dragging, body cameras are finally on their way to implementation at the Anchorage Police Department. But lest we believe that the fight for greater transparency in policing has been won, journalism nonprofit (and ADN partner) ProPublica cautions that in many places, body cameras haven’t lived up to their promise as an accountability tool because police departments withhold, edit and misrepresent footage – even in the same kinds of incidents that prompted the demand for body-worn cameras in the first place.

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