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Director: Frederick Wiseman
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From Time Out Film Guide
One of the best of Wiseman's documentaries, an impressionistic account of the daily police routine in a predominantly black neighbourhood of Kansas City, Missouri. Although violence abounds, with a black prostitute almost strangled by a vice-squad cop, the film avoids grinding axes about police brutality. Instead, sitting back and coolly observing the situation from multiple perspectives, it suggests that any sickness in the forces of law and order is a symptom of disease in the society that breeds them.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Producer: Frederick Wiseman
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 81 mins
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