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Dave Helling

Deep Background: Being a KC police officer is tough. Body cameras just might help

There’s always much discussion of the Kansas City Police Department’s budget. The topic of body cameras is on the agenda yet again. But several mitigating factors - especially the fact that the city doesn’t have local control over the department - continue to stand in the way. Toriano Porter joins his editorial board colleagues Dave Helling and Derek Donovan to talk about these and other police-related topics on this week’s Deep Background podcast.

This story was originally published February 26, 2020 at 5:45 PM.

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