After Syracuse.com article, Sheriff Conway says he welcomes body cameras if county provides money
Updated Apr 23, 2021;
Syracuse, NY After a Syracuse.com story Friday reported the Onondaga County Sheriff Office has no body cameras and no plans for them, Sheriff Gene Conway called a news conference to say he would welcome the cameras if the county provided money for them.
Conway said that he always supported the idea of body cameras, but hadn’t asked for money to implement them since being rebuffed from a pilot program in 2017.
As of now, the sheriff said he has no projections for how much a body-camera program would cost or how many deputies it would take to run.
By Brian Mudd
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Are we just more aware of officer-involved shootings than we used to be or are there more of them? For example, authorities made a point of saying they immediately released videos in the Daunte Wright shooting and the one that just happened in Columbus.
Bottom Line: It’s a great question. For the purpose of this illustration, I’m going to focus on those shot and killed by police officers in the line of duty as those instances are at the root of the debate. These are also well documented by the
The answer to your question is the trend doesn’t fit the narrative. First, a look at the number of deaths attributed to officer-involved shootings. Between 2010 and 2019 there were 4,017 deaths. Over the prior decade, we averaged more than one death resulting from an officer-involved shooting per day in the United States. This illustrates a couple of harsh realities.
Biden tests political climate at home and abroad: The Note
Biden and Harris speak on Derek Chauvin verdict
Replay Video It s a grand moment for global leadership assuming the audiences at home and abroad are looking for it. President Joe Biden faces perhaps his biggest test yet on the international stage with the two-day climate summit that begins on Thursday, a mostly virtual gathering organized by the White House to coincide with Earth Day. Biden s message to the world is a reassertion of American leadership to address climate change. He faces expected skepticism from familiar corners China, Russia and swaths of the developing world with the European Union jostling for primacy, and scrutiny on U.S. allies including Canada and Japan.
The Social Order
In July 2015, President Obama paid a press-saturated visit to a federal penitentiary in Oklahoma. The cell blocks that Obama toured had been evacuated in anticipation of his arrival, but after talking to six carefully prescreened inmates, he drew some conclusions about the path to prison. “These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made,” the president told the waiting reporters.
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New York Times seconded this observation in its front-page coverage of Obama’s prison excursion. There is but a “fine line between president and prisoner,” the paper noted. Anyone who “smoked marijuana and tried cocaine,” as the president had as a young man, could end up in the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, according to the