In central Maine, police are generally confident that their
wearable cameras will lead to evidence proving accusations
periodically made against them are false.  Those departments
without wearable cameras said they would buy them if they had
the money in the budget.  In other parts of the country,
however, police unions and police chiefs have made the news for
condemning their local officials for trying to buy the clip-on
cameras and require their officers to wear them.  New York
City’s mayor and representatives from the police union recently
condemned a federal judge’s plan to require a sampling of
officers to wear the tiny cameras, according to The Associated
Press. The judge’s order was part of an effort to spur reform in
the 35,000-officer department, which has been criticized for
singling out minorities in its “stop and frisk” program.  Mayor
Michael Bloomberg said the cameras were unnecessary and would
prove ineffective at monitoring police behavior.  Some people on
both sides also voiced concern that t