Sheriff Conway refuses body cameras while more U.S. police forces embrace them
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A Newark, N.J. police officer displays how a body cam is worn during a news conference unveiling the department s new cameras in 2017. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)AP
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Syracuse, N.Y. The New York State Police this month started to equip troopers with body cameras.
Sheriff’s deputies in Erie, Monroe and Albany counties three of the biggest Upstate counties wear body cameras. One department has had them for six years.
In Onondaga County, at least 10 of the county’s 15 police departments including the Syracuse Police Department use the cameras.
John Jamelske, man who imprisoned 5 girls, women in DeWitt dungeon, denied parole
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
John Jamelske stands in a cell at the Onondaga County Justice Center awaiting sentencing in July 2003. After serving date on July 15th. Jamelske was convicted of kidnapping five women and girls, and holding them in dungeon in his DeWItt home. After 17 years behind bars, he s up for parole.Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
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John Jamelske, the serial rapist who kidnapped five women and girls and imprisoned them in a dungeon under his DeWitt home, has been denied parole, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed Tuesday.