Kids and Cops

Kids and Cops is a youth created documentary about the tension between the two groups. This video explores stereotypes, misinformation, harassment and youthful disrespect of authority and how these things perpetuate the tension. Through a series of interviews with police and youth, solutions to the tension are explored. The message underlying the video is that the state of young people and policing today is very different then in previous generations. Today there are not as many support systems in communities so youth are more left to their own devices while police are given the impossible job of stopping crime in communities that lack infrastructure. Given the sate of affairs, restoring a sense of community will only happen through relationship building.

The DVD can be purchased at Kids on The Hill.