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UNTITLED POLICING DOCUMENTARY

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantee

  • Charles Burnett, Director
  • Nicole Lucas Haimes, Director
  • Nicole Lucas Haimes, Producer
the black silhouette of a police officer stands between two parked cars.

About the Project

A rare, cinematic journey that takes the viewer deep into the closed-off world of policing through the eyes of one of its own.

UNTITLED POLICING DOCUMENTARY unfolds this officer's harrowing odyssey, tracing his descent from an idealistic cadet dreaming of a life of heroism to a hard-charging division where he came to embrace criminal tactics in a zealous, by-any-means-necessary approach to the war on violent offenders.

This explosive behind-the-scenes account decodes the hidden drivers that lead officers to violate constitutional norms—and exposes systemic barriers to justice, some surprising and unexpected, that remain in play across the country today.