The Police Tapes ( Part 1 of 2)

Duration: 1600

Year Published: 1976

Creator: Motorola Teleprograms Inc.

Complete Record: Cinéma-vérité study of urban crime from the viewpoint of the police, culled from three months of filming officers on the job in New York City's 44th Precinct in the South Bronx. Includes compelling and often graphic footage of the police at work and the people they encounter on the job" Cops. Police handling and cuffing struggling criminals, police leading criminals to jail cell and locking cell door, burning building, LS of New York cityscape, decrepit and demolished New York buildings, rubble, city slums, city neighborhood daily life, African American child, policemen in meetings, policemen driving police cars, city at night, policemen discussing job to camera, policemen speaking with group of young African Americans, gang members surrounding police car, police answer disturbance calls in apartment buildings mainly populated by African Americans. Policemen carrying weapons, policemen wearing bulletproof vests, two policemen breaking down apartment door to make arrest, policemen speaking to handcuffed person. Policeman in office speaking to camera. Man at police station filing a complaint, policemen taking handcuffed criminal out of car and into police station, criminal is agitated and struggling, screaming, and writhing and needs to be restrained by group of cops, one of whom uses rope to finally restrain.