It focuses on police management practices and the interactions of police managers, patrol officers, and the public.
We know that the vast majority of police officers are honorable and hard-working, yet there seems to be a systematic problem with the interactions of police officers and young African-American men, and in the case of Sandra Bland, even African-American women.
Those initiatives were based on the ideas of the American sociologist Joseph D. Lohman, who studied the interaction of police and minority groups, and the psychologist Gordon W. Allport, who studied the nature of prejudice.
The members of the Congressional Black Caucus are right, we need a serious, national conversation about the interaction of police officers and communities of color, but that conversation must be more than words, we must change the system by which African-Americans and other minorities are hunted down like animals.
"The fact that these laws were not rigorously enforced is again due to the failure of the police, the interaction of the police and News International - and let's be honest about this, the fact that our politicians have been very, very involved in ways that I think are not sensible with senior News International people".
Moore has now filmed more than 300 videos of police interactions with citizens in and around Gilmor Homes, where Gray was arrested.
And a statistical analysis of millions of police interactions revealed that few people subjected to stop-and-frisk methods had been engaging in wrongdoing.
Mr. Hayden, 71, known for filming videos of police interactions with the Harlem community, said the officers had stopped him in retaliation.
Interactions with the phalanx of police officers who stood at barriers in front of the hotel were friendly, with many protesters stopping to get pictures of themselves with officers.
If nothing else, he and other legal scholars said, the adoption of the body cameras by police departments may help discourage attempts to prosecute citizens for making their own video records of police interactions, in most cases under wiretapping or eavesdropping laws that prohibit recording without consent from both parties.
Part of your job as viewer is to figure it out; as always, Abney says, the goal is to "leave it broad enough that anyone could come to the work and kind of bring their own story line to it". Even images of police interactions cast gender, race, and power as fluid and uncertain, raising rather than answering questions.
