A measly 25% decrease after an increase of…what, 10x? 20x? feels like 100x?
With no timeline? no transparency, no accountability?
And they’ll wear body cameras? eventually? they say? with footage that…who can view, again? Oh, we don’t know??
This all means nothing — •nothing• — except that they’re afraid: afraid of losing funding, afraid of consequences.
•• It’s working. Punch harder. ••
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116013686974718857
Body cameras *are not* instruments for holding ICE agents accountable. This has been proven over the course of at least a decade with the use of body cameras on municipal police.
1. They control the footage.
2. They use the threat of what the footage may show to get civilians to retract complaints.
3. They do not decrease use of force incidents over time.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0093854820970583 #BodyCameras #BodyWornCameras #BWCs #police #ICE