In a statement to WJLA, MPD said the grievance involves the use of a Flock camera in an internal affairs misconduct investigation.
“Department’s position is that the use of LPR in the misconduct investigation was appropriate,” an MPD spokesperson said. “This grievance involves a union matter, and it will be resolved through arbitration between MPD and the DC Police Union.”
The union said MPD denied the grievance and declined to investigate the managers accused of misusing the system. The department then issued a teletype restricting department-wide access to the system, according to the union.
The union, apparently unironically, says: “the department has not established enough safeguards to prevent the technology from being misused.”
Hilariously enough, the Washington DC police force has promoted a program for citizens to hook their private cameras into their surveillance system.
If I was a betting woman, I’d bet that the only changes that come out of this situation is that Internal Affairs can’t use Flock to track officers and everything else will stay in place.
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