22 Chicago cops disciplined amid surge in video, audio usage

Twenty-two Chicago Police officers have been disciplined - and there has been a dramatic increase in video and audio usage - in the one-month period since the lack of audio in the Laquan McDonald and Ronald Johnson shooting videos prompted a warning from the acting superintendent.

Punishments ranged from a mere reprimand to a three-day suspension or loss of leave, according to Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

"The disciplines were not over a destruction of equipment, but officers failing to use the cameras properly, [i.e. syncing the audio; uploading videos at the end of their tour; inspecting the cameras to ensure they work correctly]," the spokesman wrote in an email to the Chicago Sun-Times.

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