OKCPD removes body cameras until policy is in place

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An arbitrator sided with the Police Officers Union that a portion of the department's body camera policy violated the contract between the city and the union.

The heart of the issue is they didn't negotiate the policy to start with. It's not that we are against cameras but we have a policy in our contract and they did not follow that," said John George, union president. "I'm really frustrated that we had to do this over something everyone knew they should have negotiated in the first place.