SF News Oakland Police Say They Accidentally Deleted 25 Percent Of Their Body-Cam Archive While the SFPD continues its deployment of officer-worn body-cameras, the Oakland Police Department has had them for some time. Since 2009, to be precise. However, according to the Chronicle, that roughly seven-year headstart
SF News SFPD Gets Its First Body Cameras, Pledges Full Deployment By Thanksgiving Acting police chief Toney Chaplin announced at a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night that officers at all 10 of San Francisco's police stations would be equipped with body cameras by Thanksgiving. Mayor Lee
SF News SFPD Starts Slow Deployment Of Body Cameras Following years of delay, we learn today via the Examiner that some SFPD officers are finally (finally!) being equipped with body-worn cameras. The cameras are popular both among advocates who hope they will
SF News For The Nth Time, SFPD Says They'll Have Body Cameras Soon, Now By August 1 A version of the perennially delayed body camera program for officers of the San Francisco Police Department is expected to be implemented beginning on August 1 according to the Mayor's Office. Some skeptics
SF News SFPD To Finally Get Body Cameras Via Taser Contract It's been two years since SFPD chief Greg Suhr said that the beginning of the department's body camera program was just two weeks away, as KQED reports in the 2015 explantory video above.
SF News SFPD Will Be Allowed To Review Body Cam Footage Before Giving Statements, Per Draft Rules The San Francisco Police Commission voted yesterday on a policy regulating when officers will be able to review footage from body cameras before writing incident reports. In a contentious vote, the commission decided
SF News Cops In Viral Video Not Behaving With 'Class', Says SFPD Chief Chief Greg Suhr says the two officers caught on video joking about police shootings did not behave with the "class" expected of SFPD officers. The two officers shown in the video have already
SF News Video: SFPD Officers Joke About Shooting Unarmed Civilians In SF Doughnut Shop Amid the mired SFPD racist texting scandal, CBS SF has flagged new, utterly damning video of insensitive remarks from local police officers. The two brief Instagram videos, taken at Happy Donuts at 24th
SF News Video: A Timeline Of SFPD Body Camera Delays As KQED reports, it's been a long, not very transparent struggle to equip the San Francisco Police Department with body cameras. A pilot program made little headway, and eventually Mayor Lee proposed a
SF News Mayor Lee Proposes $3 Million Plan For Police Body Cameras Back in 2013, we were told that SFPD officers would be getting body cameras as part of a pilot program funded by $25,000 federal grant. But in January of this year, we
SF News SFPD Might Not Be Able To Afford Body Cameras For Officers Over a year after we were told that the San Francisco Police department would launch a pilot program in which 50 of their officers would wear body-mounted cameras, it appears that we're no