A new audit of the Atlanta Police Department’s body-worn camera recordings found that police officers have become significantly better at turning on cameras during encounters with civilians since an initial analysis in 2018.

But there are still times when they don’t.

From January through December 2024, 88% of encounters were recorded by officers. That’s a big improvement over an audit of body-camera use from November 2016 to June 2018, which found just 33% of encounters were recorded .

But the new report also found that officers turned their cameras on late or turned them off early about 20% of the time.

“Despite these improvements, we still identified instances where officers turned on cameras late and turned them off too soon, which could either be a mistake or an intentional eff

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