Amidst an epidemic of the unwarranted use of deadly force by police and a nationwide call for reform, a notorious former officer comes forward for the first time to tell of the worst sins he committed in the name of fighting crime. The officer reveals how he went from a cadet dreaming of heroism to a cop who, step-by-step, embraced his department’s ethos of battling violent offenders “by any means necessary,” and found he had become the very evil from which he wanted to save the world.
Believing he could contribute to today’s dialog on policing, the officer now shares his story. He speaks of a range of violations he enacted from harassment of citizens, to planting cases, to participation in fatal police actions.
Through this explosive behind-the-scenes account, the film decodes the hidden drivers of police culture that lead to lethal encounters, as it also makes clear that lesser, everyday unconstitutional violations, if not resulting in death, nevertheless result in wrongful arrests and convictions that destroy untold thousands of lives.
