Jennvine Wong, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project, talked to Brian Lehrer about a new policy requiring New York City police to release all body camera footage of shootings and other instances when force is used and injury or death occurs. Wong said that meaningful transparency demands full access to the body-worn camera system, arguing that the new policy doesn’t go far enough in making the footage easily available to investigators.

“It certainly an improvement from the previous policy […] but I don’t think it goes far enough,” Wong said. “Independent oversight agencies need to have direct, early, unfettered access to the body-worn camera system so that they are able to conduct their investigation to the best of their abilities. And right now, that’s not happening.”