The Friendliest Town (2021)

In 2011 Pocomoke City a small town on Marylands Lower Eastern Shore hired Kelvin Sewell its first AfricanAmerican police chief Sewell a former Baltimore city homicide investigator and narcotics officer had grown tired of the aggressive tactics used by the Baltimore Police Departmentparticularly those targeting black communities Determined to deploy a different approach to law enforcement Sewell implemented an intensive community policing plan He and his officers parked their cars and walked the streets Sewells system worked crime plummeted Residents both black and white became ardent supporters of Sewells new paradigm of policing But a conflict was brewing an ongoing dispute over racial discrimination engulfed Sewell and his officers in a battle that would not only cost them their jobs and professional reputations but would thrust them into an emotional legal battle that would touch all segments of the community