Title: Pittsburgh police series: 4th and 5th and the exclusionary rule /
Authors: Marshall, John, 1932-2005,; Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
Publisher: Documentary Educational Resources,
Year: 1973
Subjects: Police; Minorities Legal status, laws, etc.; Civil rights United States; Arrest (Police methods); Police questioning United States; Juvenile delinquency Pennsylvania Prevention.; Community policing.; Pittsburgh (Pa.) Economic conditions.; Pittsburgh (Pa.) Social conditions.; United States Social life and customs.
Abstract: This film intercuts sequences of police work in Pittsburgh with a panel discussion with Professor James Vorenberg of Harvard Law School, Jackie Shearer of Public Television, William Kelly NYPD, Henry Gallagher Cambridge Police Dept., and Tony Baldwin, a Harvard Law student. Community organizers, police, students and lawyers discuss issues raised by four sequences, including the implications of the 4th and 5th Constitutional amendments, and the Exclusionary Rule of Evidence for search, seizure, and interrogation. The film demonstrates the multiplicity of roles in police work, and examines the conflicts between how the police define their duties and what the public expects. This film is part of a series of 11 short documentaries included in the Pittsburgh Police Series. The films in the series document the routines of policework, domestic disputes, vagrancy, alchoholism and petty theft are touched upon in the eleven short films in this series. John Marshall was best known for his ethnographic films produced in Namibia, however his anthropological sensibility is evident in these eleven films. Other titles in the series: After the Game , A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding, The 4th and 5th and the Exclusionary rule , Henry is Drunk, The Informant , Inside/Outside Station Nine, Investigation of a Hit and Run, 901/904, Manifold Controversy, Nothing Hurt But My Pride, Three Domestics, Twenty One Dollars or Twenty One Days, Two Brothers, Vagrant Woman, You Wasn't Loitering.