Evidence: Getting It on Tape

The Miami police department now videotapes moving, talking mug shots of every suspect arrested. "It takes from 30 to 40 seconds," explains Officer Lloyd Hicks, who runs the project, "and it's like a walking wanted card. Officers checking the ident tapes later really get the feeling that they know the man they're after." During a race riot outside a high school in the Chicago suburb of May wood, Sheriff Joseph Woods had his tape crew record the entire scene. When police brutality was later charged, Woods simply hauled out his tapes and...

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