Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Firearms police in the Met will now wear a video camera when on duty

UK - Following Mark Duggan's killing and a verdict of lawful killing by the police, the firearms police in the Met will now wear a video cameras when on duty. This the Met has said will help increase transparency.

However, criminologist, Ben Bowling King's College London, has said that this probably yielding results will depend on the way film is stored and used, matters of blind spots, visibility, surveillance creep and so on. So, let's wait and see.

But for now, tensions are rising in Tottenham, London and many black Britons are feeling an unease about the judgement especially as Mark Duggan was killed despite been unarmed.

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