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Masked US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agents stand behind a police line in Chicago. (Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

CBP Chicago shooting story full of holes

Blaise Malley
Members of the DEA in White Plains, New York on April 24, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

DEA abandoning body cam program

Mario Ariza - ProPublica
Police on-body camera (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Body cams don't stop police brutality

Rachel Leah
FILE - In this July 25, 2016, file photo, a memorial including a photo of Philando Castile adorns the gate to the governor's residence where protesters continue to demonstrate in St. Paul, Minn., against the July 6, 2016, shooting death of Castile by St. Anthony police Officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minn. Yanez is expected to enter his plea on manslaughter charges during a hearing Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) (AP)

The plague of police violence

Celisa Calacal - Alternet
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In this Jan. 22, 2015 photo, a body camera used by Des Moines Police Department school resource officers is worn by Sgt. Jason Halifax in Des Moines, Iowa. The rush by cities to outfit police officers with body cameras after last summer’s riots in Ferguson, Mo., is saddling local governments with steep costs for managing the volumes of footage they must keep for months or even years, according to contracts, invoices and company data reviewed by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (AP)

Matthew Rozsa
In this Nov. 5, 2014 file photo, Sgt. Chris Wicklund of the Burnsville, Minn., Police Department wears a body camera beneath his microphone. Cleveland's move to buy 1,500 police body cameras and data storage could cost up to $3.3 million over five years, a higher price tag than previously known and an illustration of the long-term costs of such programs with Taser International. (AP)

Nathalie Baptiste - Alternet
In this Nov. 5, 2014 file photo, Sgt. Chris Wicklund of the Burnsville, Minn., Police Department wears a body camera beneath his microphone. Cleveland's move to buy 1,500 police body cameras and data storage could cost up to $3.3 million over five years, a higher price tag than previously known and an illustration of the long-term costs of such programs with Taser International. (AP)

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
(AP/Patrick Semansky)

We must disband the police

George Ciccariello-Maher
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Killer cops are camera shy

Rob Bryan
Michael Thomas Slager, right, pulls out his handgun as Walter Scott runs away from him, April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP/Courtesy of L. Chris Stewart)

Let citizens film the police!

Jocelyn Simonson
(Reuters/Andrew Kelly)

White House backs cop body cam

Elias Isquith
FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2014 file photo, a Los Angeles Police officer wears an on-body camera during a demonstration for media in Los Angeles. The fatal police shooting of the unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. has prompted calls for more officers to wear so-called "body cameras," simple, lapel-mounted gadgets that record the interactions between the public and law enforcement. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Joanna Rothkopf
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