By Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Credit for the most significant penal reform in New Mexico history belongs not to a lawyer or politician but to a prisoner named Dwight Duran. […] But Albuquerque attorney Alexandra Freedman Smith — David Freedman’s daughter, who became lead counsel on the case in 2016 — said that’s no longer an […]

By Arijeta Lajka March 25, 2015 As body-worn cameras increasingly become a standard feature of American police uniforms, San Diego’s experience with the technology offers another example to the growing body of evidence that suggests cops tend to behave better when they know the cameras are rolling… Read full article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/reports-suggest-body-cameras-are-only-effective-when-cops-cant-turn-them-off/