Documenting Police Use of Force

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Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

FRONTLINE and The Associated Press, in collaboration with the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism, investigate deaths that occurred after police used tactics like prone restraint and other “less-lethal force.” The documentary and accompanying reporting draw on police records, autopsy reports and body cam footage, offering the most expansive tally of such deaths nationwide.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audiocast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.0	We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:12.0	Right now, here is the Audiocast. available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:12.6	Right now, here is the audio cast of documenting police use of force. you're The project is about uncovering hidden deaths.
0:45.0	In collaboration with the Associated Press,
0:48.0	an investigation into police restraint.
0:51.0	People know about deaths in police interactions,
0:54.2	but no one really knows the extent of it.
0:56.7	In many cases, it's sort of unclear
0:59.2	what role the police force played in the death.
1:02.3	We're real world practitioners.
1:04.1	So we're dealing with a real world problem.
1:06.9	Given this reality that officers are often
1:09.5	the ones responding to mental health crises,
1:11.7	how are they trained to do that? That's one of the problems. There's an inconsistency. to He should not have died.
1:22.8	You find so many families left with unanswered questions.
1:27.2	It's important to identify what went wrong and who was responsible.
1:31.7	Now on frontline, documenting police use of force.
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