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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Stephen Maing

Producer:

Charlotte Cook, Brenda Coughlin

Release Date:

Aug 24, 2018

Runtime:

1hr 52m

Synopsis

Is the job of cops to protect their community, or to hit their numbers? Crime + Punishment is an explosive documentary that chronicles the struggles of the NYPD12, a group of minority whistleblower officers who band together to expose the illegal, discriminatory policing quotas and internal retaliation practices of the New York Police Department. While all eyes are on their landmark class action lawsuit, this film examines the complexities of police work and the institutional biases at play through secret recordings, firsthand accounts and emotional testimony – not just from active officers but from the men and women of color they serve. Directed by Stephen Maing, the film won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

Cast

  • Manuel 'Manny' Gomez
  • Sandy Gonzales
  • Rukia Lumumba

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  • Dec 19, 2018

    I’ve seen entertaining documentaries, I’ve seen enlightening documentaries, I’ve seen informative documentaries, but CRIME+PUNISHMENT might just be the most important documentary I’ve seen in 2018. Maybe that’s the New Yorker in me talking but when you’ve seen this on your…

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    Matt Neglia
    Matt Neglia
    Apr 7, 2018

    I truly believe that there will never be a day in my lifetime in which the job of police officer is considered completely unnecessary in the mainstream. So I think the best compromise we have is hoping for good cops willing to call out the system. Here’s what I do…

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    beca
    beca
    Apr 22, 2019

    Just when I thought I couldn’t find another reason to be mad, I watch this. So eye opening and mind boggling of a documentary and so well made. My only knock on it was that it felt a tad long but every second was needed and it was so powerful with each of those seconds.

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    Paddy
    Paddy
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    Apr 19, 2020

    I don’t trust cops and it’s been that way for a long time. As my consciousness is raised and I become more aware of the systemic abuses that police officers perpetrate on a regular basis, both personally and professionally, publicly and privately, that trust is eroded even…

    8 Likes
    Adam Davie
    Adam Davie
    Oct 29, 2018

    I should start a running list of movies released this year that chronicle our collective descent into madness, in which the institutions that were meant to protect us fail to do so. Movies like FIRST REFORMED, THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, etc.…

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    Johann Rucker
    Johann Rucker
    Aug 21, 2018

    In 2014, 12 police officers came together and put their jobs on the line to tell the truth. Please watch this! Especially paired with BLINDSPOTTING.

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    al
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    May 24, 2022

    Makes a pretty compelling case that everything you hoped wasn't true about policing in New York City probably is. Having to hit quotas by any means necessary, putting focus on minorities and the poor, having no recourse for reporting corruption and a culture of significant…

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    Matthew Rice
    Matthew Rice

    If someone in your life keeps asking, "But what about the good cops?" – show them this film. Director Stephen Maing takes a character-driven approach to his investigation, and I believe that level of intimacy is what takes this documentary from simply insightful to truly…

    4 Likes
    dietzm
    dietzm
    Dec 26, 2018

    Stephen Maing’s “Crime + Punishment” looks at a broken system and the few willing to fight it. I love a film that incorporates hidden audio and footage.

    4 Likes
    Dan Gaertner
    Dan Gaertner
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90
Aug 23, 2018

Crime + Punishment is a quiet documentary but a potent one. Though its approach is low key, its passion, drama and concern for exposing wrongdoing is unmistakable.

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Metacritic review by Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
90
Aug 22, 2018

Crime + Punishment is essential viewing for anyone with a suspicion that there’s corruption in law enforcement.

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Metacritic review by Tricia Olszewski
Tricia Olszewski
TheWrap
100
Aug 21, 2018

Stephen Maing’s searing documentary Crime + Punishment offers a fuller look at the question of what can be accomplished from inside, revealing both the personal toll fighting the system can exact but also the urgent necessity of such battles.

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Metacritic review by Alan Scherstuhl
Alan Scherstuhl
Village Voice
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