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FRONTLINE; Law and Disorder

08/20/2010


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Series
FRONTLINE
Program
Law and Disorder
Program Number

2818

Series Description

Premiered January 1983 Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. Series release date: 1/1983

Program Description

Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another story of law enforcement in crisis, even out of control. "Law & Disorder," a year-long, ongoing collaboration among FRONTLINE, ProPublica and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, investigates charges that NOPD officers inappropriately used lethal force against New Orleans citizens and then tried to cover up their actions. Airing days before the fifth anniversary of one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history and drawing from reports published in a real-time online investigation, FRONTLINE takes a fresh look at how the NOPD performed when the rules of civilized society collapsed.

A FRONTLINE Co-Production with Yellow Truck Productions

©2010 WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Duration

00:56:46

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres
Documentary
Topics
News
Public Affairs
Citation
Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Law and Disorder,” 08/20/2010, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed October 15, 2018, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B5AC6BAD4D0D4924917A588F9C8D33F4.
MLA: “FRONTLINE; Law and Disorder.” 08/20/2010. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. October 15, 2018. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B5AC6BAD4D0D4924917A588F9C8D33F4>.
APA: FRONTLINE; Law and Disorder. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B5AC6BAD4D0D4924917A588F9C8D33F4
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