In a year of violent police encounters, a 25-year-old movement to document law enforcement has new urgency. This is the story of Copwatch as told by Michael Brown’s neighbor and Freddie Gray’s friend.

They’re watching him — and he’s still watching them. The man who gained notoriety for filming the death of Eric Garner in 2014 — and has since been arrested several times — is still all about ...

Camilla Hall’s debut documentary, “Copwatch,” wants viewers to know these names: Dave Whitt. Ramsey Orta. Kevin Moore. Not because these men of color have been lost to police violence but because they ...

There’s a moment late in Camilla Hall’s Copwatch when a rare officer of color from the Ferguson Police Department engages a group of copwatchers, a term used for local, autonomous groups who document ...

Camilla Hall tells some intimate personal stories, but loses the bigger picture around the efforts to change policing by filming cops Camilla Hall tells some intimate personal stories, but loses the ...

Four amateur activists record public police behavior in order to prevent further killings by cops in this cursory, unenlightening doc. The topic of police brutality has taken on fresh urgency in ...

Community policing continues to be ongoing social problem in urban cities that hasn’t been properly addressed by law enforcement officials. A new documentary about an organization that watches over ...

Three members of the Malcolm X. Grassroot Movement‘s Copwatch program sued the NYPD yesterday, saying they’d been falsely arrested two years ago while in the act of watching the cops. On February 9, ...

I was recently invited to participate in a new attempt to start a Copwatch grouping in Philadelphia. This is far from the first attempt in Philadelphia at forming a Copwatch group, and all attempts to ...