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.
Direction
Yance Ford's unrelenting gaze refuses comfort.
Editing
Archival gut-punches land with surgical precision.
Writing
Expert testimony builds a damning historical case.
Director
Yance Ford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ford became the first openly transgender director nominated for an Oscar with 'Strong Island' (2017), bringing that same intimate reckoning to systemic analysis here.
The documentary deliberately excludes current police interviews—Ford stated they had 'centuries to tell their story' and this was finally everyone else's turn.
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