The Committee on the Judiciary proposed Tuesday to dial back part of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plans to equip all the District’s patrol officers with body cameras.
The committee approved only $1.9 million of the $5.1 million Bowser had sought in her budget proposal to equip 2,800 officers.
According to the Washington Times:
Read the full storyThe committee report said the Metropolitan Police Department is “not logistically prepared” for the full roll-out and noted that the department has neither the policies in place nor enough data about its six-month pilot program to garner support.
“Such an unprecedented program must be based on data — data which might have supported a larger rollout had it been collected during the Department’s pilot program,” the committee report states.
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