4 Investigates: Body camera blind spot

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4 Investigates: Body camera blind spot

Law enforcement agencies across the state began hooking up officers to body-worn cameras after a 2020 law required them. However, one group of law enforcement officers never adopted them.  “We didn’t see the need,” University of New Mexico Police Chief Joe Silva said.  He points to definitions in the law that defines “law enforcement agency” as a “police department of municipality, the sheriff’s office of a county, the New Mexico state police or…