Questions about unchecked police power have become one of today’s hot button social issues, and the public is deeply divided about it, depending on who one speaks with. Writer-director Yance Ford’s latest pours ample fuel onto this fire with a cinematic essay that clearly has an impassioned view on the subject, making a strong case that some will obviously agree with but that others are likely to decry as an agenda-driven leftist treatise. Through a series of interviews with academics who have studied the issue and criminal justice insiders, viewers are shown the dual-edged sword surrounding t…
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Power
Overview
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.
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Release date
10/05/2024
Votes
17
Popularity
1.4
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
Self
Stuart Schrader
Self
Kalfani Ture
Self
Christy Lopez
Self
Huey P. Newton
Self (archive footage)
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