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Policing the Police
2016 · Film · documentary · 53 min
Directed by James Jacoby
George Floyd’s killing triggered mass demonstrations nationwide calling for racial justice and police accountability in the United States. In the wake of those protests, New Yorker writer and historian Jelani Cobb returns to a troubled police department he first visited four years ago (Policing the Police) to examine whether reform can work, and how police departments can be held accountable.
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It's on youtube [1]. They released another documentary with the same name and the same Newark subject with 2020 updates [2]. They both have the same duration but are different.
[1] Policing the Police (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8vTl6D940
[2] Policing the Police (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNwWilMVLg
Both come with optional English subtitles.
Some time ago, I watched Frontline's "Policing the Police" episode that featured Newark and Baraka's efforts. The episode was fairly early in their process (2016), and does a nice job of framing up both the problem, and how they intended to solve it. Jelani Cobb hosts it. He does a ride-along, and somewhat incredibly, sees the problems first hand...despite the cops he's riding with knowing full well he's filming everything.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/policing-the-police/
Edit: Apparently this link works outside the US: https://player.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2365792793/