Looking back on 2022, Aurora Police Sgt. Edgar Gallardo said he believes the introduction of body cameras for officers this year has improved the agency, strengthening criminal cases and even boosting morale from officer to officer.
Gallardo points to several instances where the cameras have helped police with a case, like when two officers were chasing someone and were so focused on capturing the individual they didn’t notice he threw a gun away while running. While reviewing the body cam footage, however, police said they were able to see the discarding of the firearm.
In Aurora, officials began talking about body cameras for police officers in 2019, but were not set to start the process of obtaining the cameras until 2022 or 2023. After the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020, the department decided to speed up the process of purchasing cameras after many residents asked for more transparency from police.
“Similar to our squad cars, its always recording and the hard drive is buffering itself and can record up to 18 hours without it having to actually be activated, depending on each specific body camera,” Gallardo said.
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