From [HERE] Gordon Eden is the third chief to head the Albuquerque Police Department since 2010 when it became one of the first agencies to issue body-mounted cameras to its officers.

Ever since a Ferguson police officer gunned down 18-year-old Michael Brown, prompting weeks of civil unrest, citizens, journalists, activists and even police departments are calling for more police departments to issue body-mounted cameras to officers.

After all, they say, a camera would have put to rest the debate whether Brown was shot while on his knees with his hands in the air as multiple witnesses reported or if he really did come charging at officer Darren Wilson, causing the officer to fear for his life, as police and a dozen mythical witnesses insist.

However, the Albuquerque Police Department, which introduced lapel cameras in 2010 and has more cameras than any other department in the country, continues to have the county’s highest rate of officer-involved shootings that result in deaths, topping New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.

So shouldn’t the cameras hold these trigger-happy officers accountable if the footage determines the shootings were unjustified?

They would if the footage actually exists, but many times the officers claim the cameras were not turned on or even if they were, they somehow did not capture the incident. Or many times, they just won’t release the footage.

That was the case again Tuesday when KOAT reported that none of the footage it requested from a police shooting in July that left a man dead shows the actual shooting, despite the fact there were multiple officers on the scene.  However, they did release lapel camera footage that captured the moments after Robertson was shot.