Portland Mayor Charlie Hales and the Portland Police Department are already in favor of requiring body cameras for all Portland Police officers with careful consideration to protecting citizen privacy, but have yet to fully implement their use.

In the first year after the Rialto Police Department in California adopted the cameras in 2012, the number of complaints filed against officers fell by 88 percent compared with the last year. More importantly, the use of force by officers fell by almost 60 percent.

Please join me in asking the two people who can collectively make this happen, Portland Mayor Charlie Hales and the Portland Police Chief Michael Reese, to adopt body cameras.