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LAPD CARS TO BE OUTFITTED WITH CAMERAS

By Walin & Klarich

The Los Angeles City Counsel?s Public Safety Committee has voted 3-1 to approve the installation of video cameras in Los Angeles Police Department patrol cars. Cameras had been recommended by the Christopher Commission, which investigated the LAPD in the wake of the beating of motorist Rodney King by LAPD officers ? a beating captured on videotape by a civilian. The cameras will also satisfy a requirement of the Consent Decree between the City and the federal government entered into in the wake of the scandal involving corrupt anti-gang officers from the Department?s Rampart Division. The contract still must be approved by the full Los Angeles City Counsel and also by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The one dissenting Committee member cited concerns that IBM, who would be charged with installing the cameras in the patrol cars, would not use Los Angeles based companies, and, therefore, that Los Angeles would not be re-investing in its own economy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).