Only months after police officers in Alaska's largest city began wearing body cameras, a rash of shootings involving police — three in three weeks — has rattled residents and spurred calls for more transparency from law enforcement, who have not release any footage of the shootings.
Anchorage Police Chief-designee Bianca Cross has the legal authority to release the footage from all shootings immediately. However, she plans to wait until after all department and state investigations are finished, a process that could take months. During a news conference this week, Cross indicated the footage might not be released at all.
