Minimal Funding For Police Body Cameras

This week, President Barack Obama proposed a three-year, $263 million spending package with $75 million to help fund 50,000 body cameras with state and local governments paying half the cost.

“Let’s face it, 50,000 cameras wouldn’t even cover New Jersey. New Jersey has 565 towns and not all of them are covered by police departments — some have State Police patrols,” said Galloway Township Manager Susan Jacobucci.

Jacobucci said that unfortunately, when Obama announced the proposal this week, there were no details on how the money would be distributed.

“It’s a great sound bite, but the minute you look beneath the covers, you see it’s only 50,000 cameras. How many police officers are in the United States? How are we going to dole these out?” she said.

Today, there are more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the United States, which is the highest figure ever, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
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