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Atlas of Surveillance is a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno

Accordingly, the ACLU of Massachusetts believes that if a city or town adopts a body-worm camera program, they need to do it right. To that end, the ACLU of Massachusetts offers a model policy that follows four core principles: improving public safety, ensuring police accountability, enhancing community-police relations, and protecting privacy. This model policy also includes a “No Tape, No Testimony” proposal favoring evidentiary consequences for officers who are found to have unreasonably or in bad faith failed to record crucial incidents.

The Seattle Police Department has operated a real-time crime center in its headquarters since 2015, funded with asset forfeiture dunds and a $400,000 federal grant. The RTCC provides analyzts with a wall of monitors that monitors criminal activity in real time. The department has also used predictive policing to identify potential crime hotspots. The analysts at the RTCC gather information collected from 911 dispatch calls, SeaStat data, radio traffic, and vehicle data, among other surveillance systems and databases.

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Real-Time Crime Centers are hubs where police ingest and analyze surveillance video, intelligence, and data from a number of sources in real-time.

Body-worn cameras can be a useful tool in preserving evidence of police misconduct, providing greater oversight, and increasing accountability of police officers. But like any policing technology, body-worn cameras have the high potential for abuse. Without proper protocols and limitations, body-worn cameras can be another surveillance tool with a disproportionate impact on over policed minority communities.