From [HERE] The civil rights group whose lawsuit forced New York City police to wear body cameras while making street stops complained Thursday that the city has adopted a "nontransparent, go-it-alone approach" to implementing the plan.     

Darius Charney, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, represented plaintiffs challenging racial disparities in the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program. His clients won a sweeping ruling last year that put the police under the supervision of a court-appointed monitor and forced them to leave a paper trial and video footage of each stop.     

Charney said in a statement Thursday that the city is violating the spirit of how the reforms were supposed to be implemented.     

"The pilot project ordered by the court envisioned a collaborative process in which the city, plaintiffs and court monitor work together to develop the guidelines and procedures for how the cameras and the footage recorded on them would be used and stored," Charney said. "But it now appears that the city has made all of these important decisions implicating police officer and civilian safety and privacy entirely on its own, which is troubling for those of us who care about building trust and respect between the NYPD and the communities they police."     

When the ruling came down in August 2013, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg called it "a very dangerous decision by a judge who doesn't understand how policing works."