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In what the Portland police union president calls a landmark moment, the Portland Police Bureau and the City of Portland have agreed on a body camera policy, making Portland the last major city to move forward with the technology.
A man was killed and a woman was wounded in a late Friday shooting in Northwest Portland.
After nearly a decade of contentious debate surrounding the use of police body cameras, the Portland, Ore., City Council has approved a policy. Until now, Portland was the nation’s largest municipal police agency without the technology.
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A years-long impasse between the city of Portland and the Portland Police Association over body-worn camera policies ended Thursday night, as the two sides reached a tentative agreement that would govern a pilot program.
The U.S Department of Justice granted its conditional approval for a two-month pilot project using the policy. The propsal will go before the City Council on Wednesday.