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Summary
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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- Friends night
- Teens
- Thought-provoking
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+24)
Critics 76Audiences 52GoodWatch 66
Tomatometer79%
Metascore72
IMDb6.2
Audience score47%
User score4.7
Running time
1 h 28 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −8 min on the typical 96
typical 9688Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 131 countries
+121Released
2024
May 10, 2024
2 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
Rated
- RUnited States
What's in it
- ViolenceModerate
- Gore, disturbing imagesMild
- Frightening scenesMild
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesStrong
- Strong languageNamed in the advisories
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFriends NightSolo WatchTeensThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
13 of 13
Yance FordNarrator (voice)- CACharlie AdamsSelf - Police Inspector, Minneapolis PD
- NPNikhil Pal SinghSelf - Professor, NYU
- JGJulian GoSelf - Professor of Sociology, UChicago
- ABAaron BekemeyerSelf - Lecturer, Harvard University
- WLWesley LowerySelf - Journalist & Author
- GYGeorge YancySelf - Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
- MSMicol SeigelSelf
- KTKeeanga-Yamahtta TaylorSelf
- SSStuart SchraderSelf
- KTKalfani TureSelf
- CLChristy LopezSelf
Huey P. NewtonSelf (archive footage)
Directing · 1
- Yance Ford Director, Writer, Producer
Writing · 1
- Ian Olds Writer, Editor
Production · 7
- Jon Bardin Executive Producer
- Liz Garbus Executive Producer
- Dan Cogan Executive Producer
- Anya Rous Executive Producer
- Jessica Devaney Producer
- Sweta Vohra Producer
Camera · 1
- Julia Liu Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Penelope Falk Consulting Editor
Sound · 1
- Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Original Music Composer
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