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Police search for drugs in a house where they arrest a group of boys who return from a basketball game and are accused of having a loud party and sniffing glue.
This film is part of the Pittsburgh Police Series, produced in the late 1960s at a time of heightened civil disorder and racial tension. The seventeen films in the collection were intended for educational and institutional use to provoke discussion about policing practices. The films remain a raw and intimate window into community policing.
Additional details and a complete title list can be found on The Pittsburgh Police Series page.
This title is available on the Pittsburgh Police Shorts DVD. This compilation DVD includes a selection of filmed encounters between police and community members. Released on DVD in 2007, the re-mastered/re-authored compilation contains the following eleven shorts from the Series.
A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding
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