The Cleveland Police Department is delaying their deployment of body cameras, according to sources.
A source confirms to newsnet5.com that Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson believes there isn’t enough accountability fail safes and specific guidelines for body cam usage.
The City of Cleveland says it’s not delaying the deployment of the body cameras — but that it’s simply behind in the launch as it works out kinks to its system in place in the fourth district.
City officials say since going online in the fourth district, they’ve had two systems that collect the video from the cameras not work properly and had to replace them.
They also had one camera that didn’t work, officials state.