South Bend, Indiana Mayor and 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg requested the city’s police chief to issue an order reaffirming the city’s police department’s policy on body cameras. According to a release pertaining to the general order, the policy requires authorities to “activate their body cameras during all work-related interactions with civilians.
In Rialto, a small city outside of Los Angeles, the police department outfitted all 70 of their uniformed officers with body-worn cameras, theorizing that use of the cameras would reduce complaints and lawsuits, and thus expensive settlements and payouts.
