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Today, Explained

Why body cameras don’t work

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Body cameras were supposed to bring greater transparency to law enforcement. The case of Ronald Greene suggests police departments are still learning how to use, and even abuse, a new tool. Today’s show was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey, just a heads up today's episode features some strong language, some descriptions of

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violence, and extremely disturbing audio pulled from some police body cameras that we think

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is essential to fully understand the story, but please consider this warning.

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So it's the night of May 10th, 2019, and Ronald Green is driving through Northeast Louisiana

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near the city of Monroe, and he comes to a traffic stop.

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The officer tries to pull him over. We don't know exactly for what.

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