Peace Officer is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police, told through the story of Dub Lawrence, a former sheriff who established his rural state's first SWAT team only to have that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Dub, driven by an obsessive sense of mission, uses his own investigative skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community, while also tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers across the country.
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Peace Officer is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police, told through the story of Dub Lawrence, a former sheriff who established his rural state's first SWAT team only to have that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Dub, driven by an obsessive sense of mission, uses his own investigative skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community, while also tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers across the country.
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