PickVidsBest Law, policing & justice Videos
The 188 Law, policing & justice videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 4 intermediate, 181 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include LastWeekTonight, TEDx Talks, Tom Scott.
BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
A 45-minute Flex Your Rights documentary on how to deal with police in three situations: traffic stops, encounters at home, and on the street.
TEDxCopenhagen - Mikael Colville-Andersen - Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet
Copenhagen's bicycle ambassador Mikael Colville-Andersen argues in a TEDx talk that bicycle helmets threaten bicycle culture.
Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web
Neil Gaiman tells the Open Rights Group how the internet and piracy affect books and publishing.
Corruption is Legal in America
A short RepresentUs explainer arguing that US politics is shaped by money, citing the Gilens and Page Princeton study on how little average citizens influence policy.
Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on net neutrality, explaining the stakes of the FCC's push to roll back the rules and urging viewers to file comments.
U.S. Territories: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on how century-old Supreme Court decisions left U.S.
The $8 billion iPod | Rob Reid
A five-minute TED talk by Rob Reid, who introduces Copyright Math, applying entertainment-industry piracy loss claims to produce absurd totals such as an $8 billion iPod.
Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on the Ferguson shooting, racial inequality in policing, and the militarization of local police forces in the US.
What is a genocide?
Anders Puck Nielsen clears up common misunderstandings about what legally counts as genocide, then compares the situation in Gaza with the genocide case against Putin.
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
Technology Connections explains why North American tail light rules, which allow red turn signals and flashing brake lights, make signals ambiguous.
The Fight for the Soul of Seattle | A KOMO News Documentary
A KOMO News documentary about Seattle's homelessness, addiction and street crime.
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht
Nina Paley's TEDxMaastricht talk arguing against copyright and for copyleft and free culture.
Why We Can't Have Small Trucks Anymore - Blame the EPA
All Cars with Jon explains how EPA fuel economy rules, especially the footprint-based CAFE formula, push automakers away from small trucks.
Everything Is A Remix (Full Film)
Kirby Ferguson's film argues that creativity is built from copying, transforming and combining existing works, examining music, film and technology.
The hidden background noise that can catch criminals
Tom Scott explains Electrical Network Frequency analysis, where hum from the power grid in a recording is matched against grid logs to date and place it.
Shenzhen: A New Breed of Intellectual Property (Part 3) | Future Cities | WIRED
Part 3 of WIRED's Future Cities series on Shenzhen.
The RIGHT Way to Handle a Police Stop
A short video advising how to handle a police stop by politely refusing searches and not answering questions, citing Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.
Updated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion
The US Chemical Safety Board's updated animation of the 2005 BP Texas City refinery explosion, which killed 15 workers.
Homeschooling: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on homeschooling, focusing on how little regulation exists in many US states.
John Stossel's Illegal Everything
A John Stossel special arguing that Americans can be criminalized for almost anything, with examples of overzealous prosecutors and regulators such as the EPA.
Jones Act Debate | Center for Maritime Strategy & Heritage Foundation | Containerships & Dirigibles
Sal Mercogliano of What's Going on With Shipping?
The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime (Adam Ruins Everything)
An Adam Ruins Everything segment claiming that jaywalking became a crime through campaigns by the auto industry.
How They Caught The Golden State Killer
Veritasium explains how investigators caught the Golden State Killer using forensic genealogy, matching crime scene DNA to distant relatives in public genealogy databases.
Copyright Deadlock (The Jimquisition)
A Jimquisition episode by Jim Sterling demonstrating the Copyright Deadlock, where a video includes footage owned by several companies so that competing YouTube Content ID claims cancel each other out.