In a year of violent police encounters, a 25-year-old movement to document law enforcement has new urgency. This is the story of Copwatch as told by Michael Brown’s neighbor and Freddie Gray’s friend.

Camilla Hall’s debut documentary, “Copwatch,” wants viewers to know these names: Dave Whitt. Ramsey Orta. Kevin Moore. Not because these men of color have been lost to police violence but because they ...

Camilla Hall tells some intimate personal stories, but loses the bigger picture around the efforts to change policing by filming cops Camilla Hall tells some intimate personal stories, but loses the ...

But then a video was published. Cell phone camera footage from the scene of Scott's death told a different story, one that contradicted Slager's account and lead to murder charges being pressed. More ...

There’s a moment late in Camilla Hall’s Copwatch when a rare officer of color from the Ferguson Police Department engages a group of copwatchers, a term used for local, autonomous groups who document ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Videotaping the police in order to publicize (and, hopefully, prevent) their misconduct has been a decades-long vocation for ...

I was recently invited to participate in a new attempt to start a Copwatch grouping in Philadelphia. This is far from the first attempt in Philadelphia at forming a Copwatch group, and all attempts to ...

About 10 times a day, Darren Baptiste gets an email informing him that footage of police brutality may have been posted to YouTube through software he developed. Baptiste is the creator of CopWatch, ...