Niagara Falls, NY spent over $750,000 in ARPA funds to supply every officer with a new body camera

Niagara Falls, N.Y., Spends ARP Funds on Body Cams

The cost for the police body cameras and software to operate them came in at $765,991.49, an expenditure that officials say would have been impossible to make without the American Rescue Plan funding.

Falls begins spending ARP funds

Jun. 17—When Falls police officers were involved in a shooting on June 3, the first thing detectives investigating the incident looked for was the video recorded by the officer's body-worn cameras. Just days before the shooting, the officers involved in the incident had been outfitted with new state-of-the-art Axon Body 3 body-worn cameras. The new body cams replaced obsolete cameras that had ...