Frontline

Season 39, Episode 5

Episode Title: Policing the Police 2020

Air Date: 2020-09-15

Overview:

George Floyd's killing triggered mass demonstrations nationwide calling for racial justice and police accountability in the United States. In the wake of those protests, New Yorker writer and historian Jelani Cobb returns to a troubled police department he first visited four years ago to examine whether reform can work, and how police departments can be held accountable.