BODY CAMERA SNAPSHOT

Atlanta Police

Department: No current body cameras. On Monday, the Atlanta City Council approved spending $5.6 million to equip the police department with 1,200 body cameras. Officials hope to start outfitting the force by the end of the year. DeKalb County Police Department: No current body cameras. DeKalb recently approved a $740,000 purchase of 600 police body cameras, expected to be in operation this fall. Cobb County Police

Department: Cobb, which has about 450 uniformed officers, has some 130 cameras. It recently approved the purchase of another 100. The new cameras will cost $106,607. The additional server space and data storage cost $147,557. body cameras, used by its motorcycle division. The department has

budgeted over $1 million for cameras over the next two years, but has yet to choose a vendor. Fulton County Police

Department: No current body cameras. On Sept. 7, the police department will ask the county commissioners to approve a $470,000 purchase for enough cameras to outfit all patrol officers.

Clayton County: No current body cameras. But it recently ordered 200 of them, enough for the patrol division, at a cost of about $200,000. The county expects to start deploying them in two months.

Marietta: Six cameras on the street. The department has ordered 142, which should be deployed by October. Powder Springs: Has 24 cameras on the street, for every uniformed officer.

BOB ANDRES PHOTOS / BANDRES@AJC.COM Ifechimere Ngaoka, 43, of Austell, was pulled over by Cobb County Police Officer Jared Peer for having a tail light out; Peer was using a body camera. Ngaoka said the cameras could help address the “racial issue” between police and the black community.