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Last month the CPD found that 80 percent of its 850 dash cams do not record audio, and 12 percent don’t record video either. The CPD has blamed the failures on "operator error or in some cases intentional destruction," DNAinfo also describes a months-long repair time for dash cams that experienced “intentional destruction.” For example: Jason Van Dyke, the officer who shot and killed McDonald and has been charged with first-degree murder, brought in his dash cam in early 2014 to have a wiring problem fixed, and got it back three months later, on June 17. The very next day, the dash cam was broken again. This time it took until October 8 to fix what appeared to be intentional damage. Less than two weeks later, his dash-cam footage of the McDonald shooting (which differs from the viral video we all saw) had no sound. Police records show that the microphones in his car had never been synced up to the camera. |
You would think they would be charged with Destruction of Government Property or something like that. You would be wrong.
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reprimands and suspensions of up to three days to officers who damaged their dash cams |
This is tax dollars being spent fixing these cameras, and there's only one reason to intentionally break a recording device. That is because you're scared of what it is going to record.
Chicago PD Tamper with Dash Cams