CHP to Equip All 7,600 Officers with Body Cams

CHP to Equip All 7,600 Officers with Body Cams

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CalMatters: CHP to Equip All 7,600 Officers with Body Cameras

Three years after CalMatters’ reporting revealed that only 3% of California Highway Patrol officers wore body cameras, one of the state’s largest police forces plans to equip all its officers with the technology by next year. In 2015, now-retired Assemblymember Reginald Jones-Sawyer pitched a $10 million plan to give all CHP officers body cameras. Lawmakers landed on a one-year, $1 million pilot program. Officers recorded nearly 93,000 videos wi…