Before 2014, the use of police-worn body-cameras was very low. According to a survey conducted by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), in 2013 approximately 75 percent of a sample of police departments reported that they did not use body-worn cameras ("Research on Body-Worn Cameras and Law Enforcement," 2017). The turning point of police-worn body-camera usage was on December 1, 2014. Amidst the protests of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, President Barack Obama (president at the time) "...pledged $75 million in federal funds to help purchase 50,000 police body cameras" (Frazier, 2015). In addition, the mayor of Los Angeles took action and announced that the LAPD would receive an estimated 7,000 cameras from Taser (Frazier, 2015). In April of 2014, there was another police-involved shooting that surged body-cameras further into the spotlight. It was the shooting of Freddie Gray that led Hillary Clinton to urge every police department in the United States to the follow the lead of the LAPD (Frazier, 2015). Frazier includes a statement in her article from Taser's CEO saying that "body-camera sales have quadrupled over the past year (2014)" (2015). Frazier also includes a growth statistic, noting that "There are now 41,000 AXON cameras in use at 3,000 police agencies nationwide" (2015). On September 21, 2015, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that $23.2 million in grants would be disbursed to local agencies "to expand the use of body-worn cameras and explore their impact" ("Police body camera use in the United States").