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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- GoofsThe 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.
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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.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Police Film (1972)
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There are avenues left to explore when it comes to policing in America, but this documentary fails to find any of them.
Instead of, as they say in the intro, encouraging the viewer to question policing, the documentary tries to tell you exactly what you should believe about policing, what policing is, and it's all the same points you hear parroted online (police are slave patrol descendants, policing is unfair so you shouldn't obey, etc.). It's a film that stokes racial adversity rather than offering the fair analysis of policing that it claims in the intro.
If you've ever gone down a twitter thread about race and policing, then you've already seen everything this film has to offer.
Instead of, as they say in the intro, encouraging the viewer to question policing, the documentary tries to tell you exactly what you should believe about policing, what policing is, and it's all the same points you hear parroted online (police are slave patrol descendants, policing is unfair so you shouldn't obey, etc.). It's a film that stokes racial adversity rather than offering the fair analysis of policing that it claims in the intro.
If you've ever gone down a twitter thread about race and policing, then you've already seen everything this film has to offer.
- thegreenteaman
- May 16, 2024
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