The Police Tapes

“The Portapak Video generation changed the visual language of television. Without this film, no Paul Watson, no Nick Broomfield, no gritty US TV cop shows. A documentary about a NYC police precinct in the South Bronx made for public television. The New York Times TV critic John J. O’Connor called it a ‘startlingly graphic and convincing survey of urban crime, violence, brutality and cynical despair‘.” (Keith Griffiths)