Phoenix police show violent encounters between officers and civilians in edited videos of bodycam footage. Critical details are often left out.

The primary way Phoenix police publicly releases footage from officers’ body cameras is through edited video narratives — called Critical Incident Briefings. His memory went dark when a Phoenix officer shot him in the neck at close range at a bus terminal in Maryvale. But the department edited out the minutes that followed, captured in uncut body-camera video obtained by the Howard Center. Not all force shownIn some cases, the Howard Center found the Police Department obscured key moments of violent police encounters. When comparing uncut body-camera footage to the video briefing in another case, the Howard Center found Phoenix police edited out some of the violence itself.