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Power Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.
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00:00Police power is immediate power, is right now.
00:05Do what I told you to do, right now, or else I decide what happens next.
00:19Policing is inextricably linked to the racial history of this country.
00:24Police associated with colonizers, wealth and whiteness.
00:28So police targeted people marked as non-white.
00:32Slaves, indigenous and working class people.
00:37Police have been able to double down on their power time and time again.
00:41There are a lot of people that feel that policing is out of control.
00:45But it's also the case that there's horrific crime and it also is out of control.
00:54Policing is hard now, it's real hard.
00:56We deal with a lot of murders.
00:59In the United States, police power is essentially unregulated.
01:04Anybody who moves to hold police accountable faces a challenge.
01:09The biggest problem with policing today is that most of the harm that policing causes
01:16is perfectly legal.
01:26How did we get here?
01:35The question breaks down as soon as you ask it.
01:40We may share this country, but is your America and my America the same place as it ever been?
01:50Frederick Douglass said, power concedes nothing without a demand.
01:54And the power that is American policing hasn't conceded anything.
01:59In this kind of democracy, who is more powerful?
02:05The people or the police?
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