NEW YORK: New York City's police department is planning to release new details this week about its pilot programme for equipping officers with wearable video cameras to record encounters with the public, the department's chief spokesman said.
A federal judge ordered the department last year to test the technology in a handful of police precincts after ruling that police had acted unconstitutionally by stopping and frisking black and Latino New Yorkers in disproportionate numbers.
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