Tech Talk: Body-Worn Cameras Show Policing Policy Can’t Afford to Hide from Evidence

In 2014, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man. The chain reaction of events that followed still reverberates years later in conversations about policing, politics, and race in the United States. Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are an inextricable part of this still-unfolding history.