Tagged: body cameras

Speak Your Mind

What will be the big stories of 2016?

  • January 12, 2016
After all of the media reflection on 2015, the NIU Newsroom decided to turn its attention to the future. In the accompanying Speak Your Mind video, we ask three NIU…

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Viral accountability

NIU expert: Video, the Internet causing ‘sea change’ in U.S. law enforcement

  • December 11, 2015
Northern Illinois University sociologist Kirk Miller sums up the crisis facing American law enforcement today in just two words: viral accountability. “What I describe as viral accountability in law enforcement…

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Photo of a police squad car

Camera’s Eye

Police should wear body cameras to improve trust, accountability, NIU sociologist contends

  • July 29, 2015
Begin typing “Sandra Bland” into a Google search window, and the correct suggestion pops up as soon as the first “a” is keyed. The former Naperville woman became the latest…

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