

Power
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.
Cast

Yance Ford
Narrator (voice)
Charlie Adams
Self - Police Inspector, Minneapolis PD
Nikhil Pal Singh
Self - Professor, NYU
Julian Go
Self - Professor of Sociology, UChicago
Aaron Bekemeyer
Self - Lecturer, Harvard University
Wesley Lowery
Self - Journalist & Author
George Yancy
Self - Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
Micol Seigel
Self
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Self
Stuart Schrader
Self
Kalfani Ture
Self
Christy Lopez
Self

Huey P. Newton
Self (archive footage)
Videos
Storyline
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.
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