Power 2024. Ford’s outline is easy to understand and accurate for anyone who has studied socioeconomic power dynamics. The documentary continues to show the evolution of policing, how wartime influenced police tactics, how after slavery ended black codes gave white citizens the power to arrest their black neighbors, all of these.
Driven to contain threats to social order, american policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. The people — or the police? watch trailers & learn more.