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Meet The People Going Without Food For 15 Days To Demand A $15 Wage
Things were better for Mary Carmen Farfan when she worked at Burger King 10 years ago. Although she only made $8 an hour, she was given a full schedule and sometimes even made overtime.
Los Angeles Becomes Largest City In America To Implement Police Body Cam Policy
The Los Angeles Police Department will give body cameras to 7,000 officers by Summer 2015. In doing so, a department with a legacy of racial profiling will become the first major city police department to implement a body cam policy.
Over the past year, an unspecified number of officers in the 9,900-person department tested cameras in the field. According to Mayor Eric Garcetti, who announced the policy on Tuesday, the department may start using 800 cameras sometime in January. Steve Soboroff, the LA police commission president, approximated that the first two or three years of the program will cost $10 million.
City Council and a civilian oversight commission will have to approve the new policy before it can go into effect. After Garcetti’s announcement, Councilman Curren Price called for a specific timeline of the program’s application and additional information about the logistics involved.
At a news conference, Police Chief Charlie Beck expressed his approval. “This is a huge step for law enforcement. No other major city is even close to implementation.”
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Even as LA dismantled its Occupy encampment, the city took the time to preserve a mural conveying the 99 percent’s message.