But Virginia’s Chesterfield County, which has embraced body cameras, has a new and unexpected problem. The problem, according to Commonwealth’s Attorney William Davenport, is that the department doesn’t have the resources to handle all of the information the cameras provide. “The county has made a mistake with the way the cameras were implemented,” Davenport wrote the county Board of Supervisors. State Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment (R-James City) wants an amendment requiring adding one entry-level commonwealth’s attorney for every 50 body cameras deployed by policed. State Sen. Amanda Chase, a Republican from Chesterfield, says the county should have thought of providing extra money to watch the police tapes when it decided to buy body cameras.

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2018 18:33 UTC