
Project manager Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Marks displays a camera at a news conference in the Monterey Park section of Los Angeles in September. Dozens of sheriff’s deputies at selected stations in Los Angeles County are testing body cameras during a six-month pilot program.
Credit: Nick Ut/AP/File
RIALTO, CALIFORNIA — When five police cruisers entered a mini-mall parking lot earlier this week in Rialto, Calif., it might have signaled trouble.
Three men were handcuffed – two Latinos and an African-American. For about 20 minutes, the police questioned the three men as a crowd gathered. At last, everyone was let go.
There could be a number of reasons why the tension-filled exchange did not descend into violence. But Vernon Tucker, the head of security at the mini-mall, is convinced that the body cameras the […]