1968 - 60 Minutes reports on police in America
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Published 2020-06-07
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All Comments (21)
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This was the first episode I believe. This show was way ahead of its time. RIP Don Hewitt, Mike Wallace, Harry Reasoner, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, and Andy Rooney.
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From Rhode Island-Thanks for the post-60 Minutes at it's best-professional, responsible and balanced-and nobody ever did it better than Mike Wallace-so good to see him again.
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Exactly right because we never bothered fixing this in the first place 50 years ago But I think everybody should watch this
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50 years later......
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If you AFRAID AT WORK this may be a bad career choice PERIOD
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And nothing changes except the fashion
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There were really too many racist people with power in this whole system for way too long.
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Wow 60 Minutes, thanks for all these depressingly timely and necessary uploads.
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My pops was 7 years old when this aired on tv. Nothing has changed
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Thanks for posting this, this a very fascinating look into the past.
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1968- when "law and order" was used as the gimmick to stifle the civil rights movement but reported like a victim & solution
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Testament to just how both parties can't or won't fix it.
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We love and miss you Mike. So young here. Crazy to see. It’s 2022 and we still have a lot of the same issues with policing and with police being underpaid and undertrained. Crazy this was almost 65yrs ago, progress has been made but not enough
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We ñeed less, better trained, better paid police officers .
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It's almost stunning to listen to Attorney General Clark give thoughtful uncanned answers to Mike Wallace. I don't think I'll see this again in my time.
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Damn, I wasn't expecting all this honesty.
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This needs more views and I just started watching.
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And nothing has changed!!
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Fascinating.
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Clearly we can't completely eliminate crime but we can reduce if systems were equal. If people are denied oportunties, harassed, allowed to only earn low wages. Consider this not so fictional portrayal of life. Let's say a wife has a husband that rules over her, disrespects her, beats her. Now do you think she is just going to put up with this abusive treatment. One day she's going to rise up against that man, whether he's eating, standing or sleeping, (The Burning Bed) movie.
