June 10, 2015
Web Makes Police Candor Critical
Boston Herald
The decision this week by Boston police and the Suffolk district attorney to make the video of the Usaamah Rahim shooting public was a dramatic reversal of the long-standing practice of keeping such evidence under wraps, until a public trial or other event. A major force behind this change — as it has been with so many professions — is the Internet. Law enforcement officials have always been slow to change, but even they are beginning to recognize that with this new technology, and the 24/7 news cycle it creates, change is not an option — it is a necessity.