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Crime + Punishment Striking cinematography highlights Stephen Maing's captivating, ire-inducing, informative, eye-opening, 111-minute documentary that used hidden audio and video recordings to follow a group of minority officers known as the NYPD 12, including Edwin Raymond (6 years), Felicia Whitley (9 years), Sandy Gonzales (12 years), Derick Waller (20 years), Kareem Abdullah, Pedro Serrano (9 years), Adhyl Polanco (8 years), Richtie Balz (10 years), and Julio Diaz, who filed a class-action lawsuit in 2015 against the NYPD claiming supervisors in charge (such as Commissioner William Bratton, lieutenant Hackey, and sergeants Ho and Campbell) discriminated and retaliated against them for not engaging in illegal use of "stop-and-frisk" tactics to make their monthly quotas of summons, fines, and arrests and not coercing so-called witnesses and consists of commentary and interviews with television host/journalist Touré Neblett, 19-year veteran sergeant Cyress Smith, retired detective Graham Witherspoon, attorneys Emika Nwokoro and John Scola, private investigator Manuel Gomez, Latino officers association president Anthony Miranda, center for alternative sentencing and employment services leader Ruskia Lumumba, Make the Road Adilka Pimentel, NY Justice League Tamika Mallory, and erroneously convicted teenage inmate Pedro Hernandez.   Redhead: Year: 2018 Rating:  NR View Crime + Punishment on the Internet Movie Database