They created a Community Policing and Body Camera Ad Hoc Committee and a Body-Worn Camera Feasibility Review Committee. Local debate focused on body cam limitations, potential misusesAt the time, the Obama administration was making grants available to help local police departments pay for body cameras. Over the years, the social justice group Freedom Inc. has been a vocal opponent of body cameras in Madison. “I think the the slogans about defunding the police have more to do with why Madison does not have body cameras than anything else,” Soglin said, noting that body cameras cost money. Similarly, he said there’s a mixed body of evidence about whether body cameras have a definitive effect on police-community relations.