Power

2024
15
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

822

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Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.

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Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

822

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Charlie Adams

Self - Police Inspector, Minneapolis Police Department, 4th Precinct

Nikhil Pal Singh

Self - Professor, New York University, Author, Race and America's Long War

Julian Go

Self - Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago, Author, Patterns of Empire

Aaron Bekemeyer

Self - Lecturer in Modern History, Harvard University

Wesley Lowery

Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author

George Yancy

Self - Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory University

Micol Seigel

Self - Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Author, Violence Work

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Self - Professor, Northwestern University, Author, Race for Profit

Stuart Schrader

Self - Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Author, Badges Without Borders

Kalfani Ture

Self - Former Police Officer, Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Mary's University

Christy Lopez

Self - Professor, Georgetown Law, Former Deputy Chief, USDOJ Civil Rights Division

Baher Azmy

Self - Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University

Elizabeth Hinton

Self - Historian, Yale University, Author, America on Fire

Nilesh V

Self - Former New York City Resident

Paul Butler

Self - Professor, Georgetown Law, Author, Chokehold

Barry Friedman

Self - Director, NYU Policing Project, Author, Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission

Redditt Hudson

Self - Former Police Officer, Co-Founder National Coalition of Law Enforcement Officers for Justice

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self - 36th President of the United States
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Director
- Yance Ford
Writers
- Yance Ford
- Ian Olds
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Featured review

10/10

A hit dog gonna holler lol

To some of us this information is unfortunately not new. Hate it or love it these are the facts and it's an ugly truth. More people should watch it and really drink it in. A good watch IMO. The negative reviews are very telling of the mind set that holds us all back in one way or another. It makes you think what is even the point of law enforcement especially knowing what we know now in this day and age. Makes you really wonder who are they really protecting? It's definitely not the poor. Regardless of ethnicity if you're not in the 1% you're pretty much screwed. The system is not broken it is designed purposely this way smh.

Goofs
The documentary states that the first publicly funded Police force was created in Boston in 1838 when in fact it was created in London in 1829. It talks of Police history but it becomes immediately obvious that the program is about Policing in the USA but is on a global platform with little regard to The Rest Of The World.

Quotes
Wesley Lowery: Frederick Douglass said, 'Power concedes nothing without a demand.' And the power that is American policing hasn't conceded anything. If anything, it's doubled and tripled down on that power.