To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Our police are in trouble - frustrated, bored, and tired of trying to do a job that many believe just can t be done. Antiquated gun laws, drug laws, and moral codes are only part of the pressures on our police. Not everyone is prosecuted for crimes or misdemeanors. All too often the cop is left up in the air, and must rely on his own street sense. He is truly without leadership and guidance. This film investigates the reality behind the paramilitary, pursuit car image of the police portrayed by television and feature films, and looks at the cop as he truly is - human, flawed, but hopeful and well worth helping.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Police car does a U-turn in the middle of the street. Police car with red flashing light. CU of man. Man-on-the-street interviews about the police. Quick shot of cops making an arrest.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Woman sitting on a couch crying. Police officers enter the room & try to control the domestic disturbance. The cops are in a training session, being observed from behind a large 1 way window. CU of badge. Officer tries to talk to the woman. Police car on the street.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
New York, night shot, urban street, wet pavement. CU of various pedestrians on the street. Cop walking down the street. Day shot, police car speeding after a car, lights flashing.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Interview with a former San Francisco cop. He talks about his experiences as a police officer. Cops on an urban street, night, rain. Quick cuts to shots of people on the street. Cop talks to the driver of a car.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Interview former New Haven Police Chief James Ahearn, who is also the author of Police in Trouble, and Director of the Insurance Crime Prevention Institute. Explains isolation felt by cops. Cut to cops on the street. New York. Cops stop people on the street. Good 1970s fashions.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Hippie mural on the side of a building. Interview a San Francisco lawyer (Tony Serra) who defends people in drug cases, "dope lawyer". He thinks that the cops have changed. Describes a "narc", undercover cop. New York, night, rain. Cops get out of their cruiser & question a man on the street. Cut back & forth between the lawyer & scenes on the street.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Night shot, Reno, Nevada. Lots of neon lights. Great signs of the casino signs. People move in & out of the casinos. People playing slot machines. Crowds on the street & in the casino. Gambling. Good fashions.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Nice shot of a helicopter flying over New York city. The police helicopter flies past the World Trade Center (Twin Towers). Nice shot of pilot & officer inside the helicopter. Aerial of New York skyline, World Trade Center. Police cars with lights flashing. Pan across sign "new York Police Department". Aerial shot of World Trade Center. Aerial shots of New York city.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Night shot, police car with flashing lights races down the street. Inside the car, policeman talks on his radio. Family members argue. The cops are in a training session, being observed from behind a large 1 way window. They are learning how to handle domestic disturbances. Shot from behind the glass, experts observing. Cut back to cop in the car. Cut back to training session. After the train gin they discuss what happened. Another family scene.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Cop cars on the street chasing another car. Cops jump out of the car with shotguns. The yell "freeze". Men are pushed onto car, hand-cuffed & arrested. Cop takes a gun off of the suspect. Nice shot of handcuffs going on. Suspects are put into the back of the cop car. This was a simulated crime used to train the police.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Interview with a former San Francisco cop. Man walking through the heavy shadow of a forested area. He talks about cops who suffer from boredom. He simulates how a routine questioning can become violent. He thinks that women on the force would help to control the unnecessary escalation of violence.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
Good shot, looking down the barrel of a gun. The policeman is at a firing range. Shot of the target. Loading a shotgun with shells. Good shots on the firing-range. All the men wear ear protection.
To Humanize Our Police: No More TV-Image Cops
New York, night, rain. Cops question people on the street. Cop car. Ambulance. Man is put in the back of the police cruiser (arrest). More shots of police & pedestrians.