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.
Prediction Markets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment examines prediction markets such as Polymarket: the legal and moral questions, weak regulation, and insider trading and manipulation concerns.
Food Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on food safety in the US.
Ian Hislop on Capital Punishment
A BBC Question Time clip in which Ian Hislop argues against capital punishment, rebutting the deterrence argument.
Locksmith ripoffs: Hidden camera investigation (Marketplace)
CBC Marketplace investigates locksmith scams in the Greater Toronto Area.
Kia Boys Documentary (A Story of Teenage Car Theft)
A Milwaukee vlogger follows teenagers known as the Kia Boys who steal Kia and Hyundai cars after a security flaw went viral on social media.
Bill Gates - Microsoft Antitrust Deposition - Highlights
A 39-minute highlights reel of Bill Gates being deposed by David Boies in the 1998 to 2001 United States v.
All Creative Work Is Derivative
A two-minute animated minute meme by Nina Paley, photographed at the Metropolitan Museum, showing how all creative work builds on what came before.
Does Canada’s Bill C-16 Violate Free Speech or Protect Human Rights? | The Agenda
A TVO current affairs panel debates Canada's Bill C-16, which added gender identity and expression to human rights law and the Criminal Code.
This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
Reason TV profiles Elvis Summers, a Los Angeles musician who crowdfunded dozens of tiny homes for homeless people.
Police Interrogations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on police interrogation tactics and how they can lead innocent people to give false confessions.
Afroman - Will You Help Me Repair My Door (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
Afroman's music video for a song about police damaging his door, built from home security footage of an officers' raid on his house.
Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis
Lawyer and musician Damien Riehl argues that music is math with a finite number of melodies, and describes how he and programmer Noah Rubin generated every possible melody and released them under CC0 to avoid accidental infringement claims.
Adam Ruins Everything - The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal
An Adam Ruins Everything segment arguing that political motives, including Nixon's, lay behind making marijuana illegal.
4th of July DUI Checkpoint - Drug Dogs, Searched without Consent, while Innocent
A driver films a police DUI checkpoint on the 4th of July where a drug dog alerts on his car and he is searched without consent, though he broke no laws.
How Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)
Practical Engineering explains how engineers and agencies put a dollar value on a human life to weigh cost against safety.
Sacrifices to the Church of Nintendo
EmpLemon examines Nintendo's brand-protection strategy, its aggressive legal actions and its relationship with fans and creators.
How to Stop a Riot
Wendover Productions explains counterintuitive riot control techniques based on research, showing that effective tactics tend to avoid violence.
Policing the internet in Germany, where hate speech, insults are a crime | 60 Minutes
A 60 Minutes segment on how German prosecutors and police go after online hate speech and insults, which are crimes there.
People React To DUI Laws(1980s News Report)
A short clip of 1980s news coverage in which people react angrily to new drunk driving laws, with some calling them communist.
My first interview with Sam Bankman-Fried
Tiffany Fong's phone interview with Sam Bankman-Fried shortly after FTX filed for bankruptcy.
Unarmed man begs for life, shot by police
CNN report on bodycam footage of former Mesa police officer Philip Brailsford shooting unarmed Daniel Shaver in an Arizona hotel.
2015 Nissan Tsuru vs. 2016 Nissan Versa
An IIHS car-to-car crash test pitting a 2015 Nissan Tsuru, sold in Mexico, against a 2016 Nissan Versa, sold in the US.
UK Cops Disarm Man Wielding a Machete | Firsthand | CBC
A two-minute CBC Firsthand clip showing UK police surrounding and capturing a distraught man holding a machete, then taking him to a hospital.
Apple & Customs STOLE my batteries, that they won't even provide to AASPs.
Louis Rossmann describes US Customs seizing replacement MacBook batteries at Apple's behest, while Apple refuses to supply the batteries to authorized service providers.