This needs to be required watching for everyone here, even and especially the folks who show up to complain that police are somehow unjustly maligned today.

It may say on the wrapper that it’s a documentary about Hip Hop. And it is. But it’s really also a documentary about roughly the last fifty years of the state of policing in the US, with a quite overt emphasis on the impacts our justice system has had on people of color and the poor.

So many things that I have learned in the past few years are included here in one place, along with so many new bits of information and perspective. And, a great deal of what is shared here is related by people who lived through it.

This is a fascinating goldmine of information and understanding, with a great soundtrack.