racism and police

Long Shot is a Netflix documentary about Juan Catalan, a Los Angeles man wrongly arrested for murder in 2003 and exonerated by unaired Curb Your Enthusiasm footage.

HBO documentary series about the 2011 murder of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips in Potsdam, NY, and the racially charged prosecution of soccer coach Oral 'Nick' Hillary, who was acquitted.

Trial 4 is a Netflix documentary series about Sean K. Ellis, a Boston teenager convicted of murdering Det. John Mulligan in 1993 and jailed for 22 years before exoneration.

Unabomber: In His Own Words is a Netflix documentary series about Ted Kaczynski, the domestic terrorist who mailed bombs across the US from 1978 to 1995, killing 3 and injuring 23.

MLK: The Conspiracies is a 2021 documentary series examining the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., convicted killer James Earl Ray, and decades of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.

HBO Max documentary series re-examining the 1999 murder of Rocío Wanninkhof in Mijas, Spain, and the wrongful conviction of Dolores Vázquez.

The Slow Hustle is an HBO Max documentary about the mysterious 2017 death of Baltimore homicide detective Sean Suiter, shot in the head one day before testifying before a federal grand jury.

Grand Knighthawk is a 2023 Hulu documentary about a 2015 northern Florida KKK murder-plot against a Black former inmate, stopped by an undercover Army veteran and the FBI.

En gang narkostrømer is a TV 2 Play docuseries in which former undercover narcotics officer René Dahl Andersen exposes how drugs flow from South America into Denmark.

HBO Max documentary series about the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart by her husband Charles, who falsely blamed a Black man and triggered a racially charged manhunt across Boston.

The Garrett Phillips case is an unsolved American homicide in which 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was strangled in his Potsdam, New York apartment on October 24, 2011.

The John Mulligan murder case is a 1993 Boston homicide in which veteran police detective John J. Mulligan was shot dead outside a Roslindale Walgreens during an apparent robbery.

The Sean Suiter case is a disputed 2017 death investigation in which a Baltimore homicide detective was found shot in the head in a vacant West Baltimore lot one day before a federal grand jury appearance.

On 15 March 2019, Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during Friday prayers, killing 51 people and injuring 40 others. He was arrested en route to a third target and later sentenced to life imprisonment without parole—New Zealand's first such sentence.

Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit's mayor from 2001 to 2008, orchestrated one of America's most brazen municipal corruption schemes, systematically extorting over $1 million from contractors and diverting hundreds of thousands in public funds for personal luxury. His conviction in 2013 on 24 federal felony counts exposed a network of co-conspirators—including his father Bernard and contractor Bobby Ferguson—who weaponized city contracts and pension fund access for personal enrichment.

A Kenyan police officer shot and killed 33-year-old stonemason Gregory Kingori Kanyi during a nighttime raid in 2015. In 2023, the verdict came: seven years in prison for manslaughter.

Between August 1991 and January 1992, John Wolfgang Ausonius carried out a series of shooting attacks across Stockholm and Uppsala that left one dead and ten seriously injured. Known as Lasermannen—the Laser Man—the Swedish gunman deliberately targeted immigrants, sparking one of the country's largest manhunts since the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme.

Brazilian police kill an average of 17 people per day nationwide, with Rio de Janeiro recording over 1,000 deaths annually. Most cases are closed as self-defense with few arrests, while the Comando Vermelho cartel consolidates control of the illegal drug market amid systemic corruption.

In May 1987, Queensland's government ordered a public inquiry into police corruption that would ultimately uncover decades of systemic abuse of power, jail a police commissioner and three ministers, and end the National Party's three-decade stranglehold on state politics.

Olof Palme was shot dead on a Stockholm street in 1986. A 34-year investigation ended with Stig Engström named as the prime suspect — but he died before charges could ever be filed.