police-reform

What Mexico’s Police Force Can Teach Us About Ours

Filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios talks about his documentary ‘A Cop Movie,’ which combines actors and real-life police officers to explore how hard it is to be a good cop in a corrupt system — no matter what country you live in

‘The Guilty’ Spits in the Face of the ‘One Good Cop’ Trope

In this Netflix thriller, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a disgraced policeman hoping to redeem himself by saving an abducted woman. It’s a cautionary tale for our ‘Defund the Police’ age

Nightmare Fuel: How a Man Fell Asleep on the Street and Woke Up in a Mental Hospital

Joshua Spriestersbach was arrested, incarcerated and drugged even though he repeatedly told officials they had the wrong guy. How does something like this happen, and what can we do to prevent it from happening again?

Blue Lives Matter Gets a TikTok Makeover

Goofy, cringe and #HumanizingTheBadge, viral cop TikToks find a massive audience — and help rationalize a policing system that’s rotten to its core