Confidential Charles Burnett and Nicole Lucas Haimes Policing Documentary

Institute History

  • 2021 Women In Film/Sundance Institute Financing Intensive

Description

Amidst an epidemic of the unwarranted use of deadly force by police and a nationwide call for reform, an well-known anti-gang officer sits for the camera for the first time to speak of the worst sins he committed in the name of fighting violent crime. His powerful and intimate telling reveals the hidden drivers of cop culture that lead officers to violence, brutality and the violation of constitutional policing norms.

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