Cops sport audio-visual recorders

Federal funds are equipping Oconee sheriff’s officers with small audio-visual recorders designed to leave little doubt as to the conduct of a citizen and an officer when the two meet in an official role. And, as a sheriff’s captain described the Taser Axon flex camera recorder today to 96.3/WGOG NEWS, the truth of the encounter will win out. Capt. Jeff Underwood says each device costs $500 dollars and the Sheriff’s Office, so far, had enough money to equip Underwood’s entire 33-member road patrol division—along with a couple of process servers. The cameras are cupped around the lobe of an ear or from the lapel of an officer’s uniform. In an interview airing on 96.3/WGOG NEWS, Underwood shares his opinion of how wearing one of the Taser Axon flex camera-recorders could have benefited the side of truth in the recent incident in which a policeman near St. Louis, Missouri shot and killed an unharmed man.