Best Policing
“Let the Fire Burn” examines the tragic 1985 confrontation between Philadelphia police and the Black Panther Party’s MOVE organization. The documentary details the events surrounding the standoff at a West Philadelphia rowhouse and the subsequent bombing that resulted in eleven deaths including chil...
The Force is a 2017 documentary directed by Peter Nicks about the Oakland Police Department during a period of federal oversight and attempted institutional reform. With extensive access to officers, training sessions, leadership meetings, and public confrontations, it records the gap between reform...
American sociologist known for the contested ethnography "On the Run" (2014), which studied policing and fugitive life in a Black neighborhood in Philadelphia.
