1960 cops learning to handle 'the mentally ill' — what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
A training film showing police officers how to deal with persons who are mentally ill.
Direction
Stoney's earnestness clashes with dated methods
Production
Authentic period police training aesthetics
Director
George C. Stoney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was produced during the final years of institutionalization-era America, just before deinstitutionalization movements gained traction — making it a snapshot of 'enlightened' policing that feels barbaric today.
Director George C. Stoney became legendary for socially-conscious documentaries; this early work shows his humanist instincts wrestling with the clinical language of his era.
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