Films

Stigma: Stop and Frisk in New York City¹ from Yale Visual Law Project² on Vimeo³.

Synopsis The law permits police officers to stop and frisk people based on “reasonable suspicion.” Do “Stop and Frisk” police practices cause racial profiling or deter crime? “Stigma” explores the dynamic between the community and the police through the eyes of three people who grew up on the streets of New York City.

Interviewees David A Harris, Frantz Jerome, Aisha Jordon, Tracey Meares⁴, and Gregory Neuman.

Filmmakers Stephanie Keene, Ally Lamb, and Spencer Wolff (Directors and Producers); Stephanie Keene (Writer); Valarie Kaur and Rebecca Wexler (Producers);Sabrina Gordon⁵ (Supervising Editor); Sharat Raju⁶ and Rebecca Wexler (Additional Editors)

Production Team Joe Friedman⁷ (Cinematographer); Gil Talmi⁸ (Music); Sanjeev Brar⁹(Post-Production Sound); Jennifer Bennett, Nicholas Bramble, Megan Corrarino, Nate Freeman, Kevin Jiang, Sharanya Kanikkannn, Ally Lamb, Sharat Raju⁶, and Charles Vogl (Associate Producers)

Scholarship Street Stops and Broken Windows: Terry, Race and Disorder in New York City¹⁰; An Analysis of the NYPD’s Stop-And-Frisk Policy in the Context of Claims of Racial Bias¹¹; Norms, Legitimacy and Law Enforcement¹²; The Legitimacy of Police Among Young African-American Men¹³; Race and Selective Enforcement in Public Housing¹⁴; Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited: The Democracy and Logic of Proactive Policing in a Safe and Changing City¹⁵; Pot as Pretext: Marijuana, Race, and the New Disorder in New York City Street Policing¹⁶; The Stories, the Statistics and the Law: Why ‘Driving While Black’ Matters¹⁷; Lawful Policing¹⁸; Incarceration, Reentry, and Social Capital: Social Networks in the Balance¹⁹.

Advocacy Color of Change²⁰, Rights Working Group²¹, Center for Constitutional Rights²², Flex Your Rights²³, Bronx Defenders²⁴, Brotherhood/Sister Sol²⁵.

Running Time 13:38

Alienation²⁶ from Yale Visual Law Project² on Vimeo³.

Synopsis When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a 7-Eleven in Baltimore, they arrested dozens of bystanders on the grounds of alleged immigration violations. “Alienation” follows the story of two families swept up in the 2007 raid and examines current controversies in immigration law and policy in the United States.

Interviewees Muneer Ahmad²⁷, Sebastian Amar, Marvin Cheatham, “Ernesto”, Lucas Guttentag²⁸, “Pilar”, “Saul”, and Michael Wishnie²⁹

Filmmakers Megan Corrarino, Nate Freeman, Sharanya Kannikannan, Valarie Kaur, and Sharat Raju⁶ (Directors, Producers, and Writers)

Production Team Joe Friedman⁷ (Cinematographer); Sanjeev Brar⁹, Sagar Jethani³⁰, Eric Santiestevan³¹, and Gil Talmi ⁸(Music); Sanjeev Brar⁹ (Post-Production Sound); Jennifer Bennett, Nicholas Bramble, Kevin Jiang, Stephanie Keene, Rebecca Wexler, and Charles Vogl (Associate Producers)

Scholarship A Rage Shared by Law: Post-September 11 Racial Violence as Crimes of Passion³²; Interpreting Communities: Lawyering Across Language Difference³³; How Racial Profiling in America Became the Law of the Land: United States v. Brignoni-Ponce and Whren v. United States and the Need for Truly Rebellious Lawyering³⁴; The Case Against Race Profiling in Immigration Enforcement³⁵; Immigrants and the Right to Petition³⁶; Laboratories of Bigotry? Devolution of the Immigration Power, Equal Protection, and Federalism³⁷; State and Local Police Enforcement of Immigration Laws³⁸; Introduction– The Border Crossed Us: Current Issues in Immigrant Labor³⁹.

Advocacy Detention Watch Network⁴⁰; Rights Working Group; CASA de Maryland⁴¹

Running Time 17:00

The Worst of the Worst

The Worst of the Worst: Portrait of a Supermax Prison depicts Connecticut’s sole supermax prison, where many inmates are held in solitary confinement for months and even years at a time. Hard-hitting interviews with a range of experts and administrators are interwoven with the powerful stories of those who spend their days within the walls of Northern: inmates and correctional officers.

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Support for the Yale Visual Law Project has been provided by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and the Vital Projects Fund.

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https://vimeo.com/25382610

https://vimeo.com/user7522770

https://vimeo.com

http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/TMeares.htm

http://vespertinefilms.com/ABOUT.html

http://sharatraju.com/

http://www.josephfriedman.com/home.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1284601/

http://sanjeevbrar.com/

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=257813

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=846365

http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/515/

http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/528/

http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:129661

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1399073

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1733785

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=199508

http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/521/

http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/prison2home02/rose.pdf

http://www.colorofchange.org

http://www.rightsworkinggroup.org

http://ccrjustice.org/

http://flexyourrights.org/

http://www.bronxdefenders.org/

http://www.brotherhood-sistersol.org/

https://vimeo.com/26903037

http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/MAhmad.htm

http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/LGuttentag.htm

http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/MWishnie.htm

http://bluescreenmusic.com/

http://www.ericsantiestevan.com/

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1305628

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1016818

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1424183

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=253042

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1734543

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1734442

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1737065

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1872603

https://detentionwatchnetwork.wordpress.com

http://www.casademaryland.org/

Films

Films

Stigma

Alienation

The Worst of the Worst

We Break Things

Honorable Discharge?

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