An effort by Chicago police to ensure videos from dashboard cameras also have audio has resulted in a dramatic increase in video and audio usage.
22 police officers have been disciplined in a one-month period since squad-car dashboard videos at the scene of the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald didn't have audio.
Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says the punishment officers received ranged from a reprimand to a three-day suspension or loss of leave.
He says the officers were disciplined for failing to use the cameras properly, including not synchronizing audio, not uploading videos at the end of a shift and not inspecting the cameras to ensure they worked correctly.
The spokesman says as a result of Interim Police Superintendent John Escalante saying all officers are responsible for checking their equipment to make sure it works before every shift, there has been a 75% increase in user uploads of video.
