Anchorage protesters rally downtown, frustrated over a lack of body cameras on local police

“I don’t know what the holdup is,” Rich Curtner said about the lack of body cameras on Anchorage police. “It was privacy for a while, now it’s the union, now it’s arbitration. It just seems like it’s taking too long.”

Jeremiah Savage circled around Alaska Police Department’s headquarters on Thursday protesting the lack of body cameras on police.

Celeste Hodge Growden, president of the Alaska Black Caucus, led the rally, starting in front of APD’s downtown headquarters. Her organization advocated for the $1.8 million purchase of body cameras, which Anchorage voters approved in March 2021. Police have provided no timeline for when officers will start wearing the cameras.

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