This film is a disappointment though it is worth seeing. The white Police are always the oppressors of the noble black community. They refer to a large street crowd of black people as "pickaninies". When black people use dope it the fault of the white power structure. Never is individual responsibility expressed as a reason for failure. The history of these troubled times is not portrayed with a sense of balance you might see in a Spike Lee film. The research is as bad as Oliver Stone's JFK. If you see this film don't take it as an accurate representation of the subject matter.