Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power.
Yance Ford
Narrator (voice)
Charlie Adams
Self - Police Inspector, Minneapolis PD
Nikhil Pal Singh
Self - Professor, NYU
Julian Go
Self - Professor of Sociology, UChicago
Aaron Bekemeyer
Self - Lecturer, Harvard University
Wesley Lowery
Self - Journalist & Author
George Yancy
Self - Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
Micol Seigel
Self
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Stuart Schrader
Kalfani Ture
Christy Lopez
Huey P. Newton
Self (archive footage)
Director, Writer, Producer
Ian Olds
Writer
Jessica Devaney
Producer
Netsanet Negussie
Sweta Vohra
Aug 12, 2005
May 9, 2016
Aug 12, 2020
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Story Syndicate
US
Multitude Films
Corvidae Media
United States
English