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State of Emergency: Inside the Los Angeles Police Department

Documentary 30 min., 1993

Director/Producer Liz Canner, Co-Producer Julia Meltzer

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ABOUT

State of Emergency: Inside the Lost Angeles Police Department investigates police brutality in Los Angeles both before and after the beating of Rodney King. Through interviews with L.A.P.D. officers and supervisors, the tape reveals what life is like behind the thin blue line. State of Emergency, while specifically addressing police issues in Los Angeles, can also be viewed as reflective on the conditions of many police departments in urban areas throughout the United States.

Distributed by Video Data Bank; Third World Newsreel; V Tape

PRESS

"Wielding a point of view seldom seen on public affairs programs, the tape provides a powerful alternative to television news coverage."

- Claire Aguilar

Manager, Broadcast Programming

KCET-TV/Channel 28, Los Angeles

"A truly remarkable piece of popular education. The editing and range of footage is outstanding."

- Jill Dawsey

Afterimage

"In a disturbing 30 minutes, State documents the prevailing attitudes in the LAPD which not only let this brutality occur, but condone and even encourage it...by exposing the routine dehumanization of L.A.’s minority citizens, the video elucidates the gulf between authority and community across the country.

- Julie Wolfe

NEW ENGLAND FILM

SCREENINGS

PBS , PA. and CA.

The New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center

Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jurors' Citation Award

San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Merit Award

The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities & Filmforum,

screenings

LIZ CANNER