DER Documentary

The Informant

From the Pittsburgh Police series
by John Marshall
black and white, 24 min, 1973

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This film focuses on a black burglary suspect who, during interrogation by police offers his services as an "undercover" informant - providing the police will suppress his charge.

Other films in the series:

• After the Game
• A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding
• The 4th and 5th and the Exclusionary rule
• Henry is Drunk
• Inside/Outside Station Nine
• Investigation of a Hit and Run w/ Legal Discussion
• Manifold Controversy
• 901/904
• Nothing Hurt but my Pride
• Three Domestics
• Twenty-One Dollars or Twenty-One Days
• Two Brothers
• Vagrant Woman
• Wrong Kid
• You Wasn't Loitering
• Youth and the Man of Property