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Director Yance Ford Tells Doc Talk Podcast U.S. Police Power Is Enormous And Unregulated: “Police Aren’t Supposed To Be In Charge Of Themselves”
Oscar-nominated 'Power' director Yance Ford is the guest on Deadline's 'Doc Talk' podcast with John Ridley and Matthew Carey. Listen here.
In his new documentary Power, premiering on Netflix this Friday, the filmmaker argues policing in America is really about the maintenance and enforcement of a particular social order, one that privileges property-owning members of society while targeting and disadvantaging others. The documentary makes the case that police authority up until the present time has been deployed to keep certain groups under control and in their place – particularly African Americans who have been tagged with the racist perception that they are inherently “unruly.” The structure of policing as an institution has developed in an anti-democratic manner, investing officers with authority that, the film contends, is both vast and intimate, and essentially unregulated. Doc Talk is produced by Deadline and Nō Studios, the production company founded by Ridley, and is presented with support from National Geographic Documentary Films.
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