Flint Town

Awesome series! A real eye opener on what is happening STILL in Flint. Everyone across the nation, in fact most likely everyone across North America knows about the disgusting, lethal water in Flint. This series takes you to actual day to day life struggles in Flint thru the eyes of some men and women in blue. The real people trying to keep the community together with only 1/3 the manpower. Amazing people make up the police force and any city would be thankful to have them watching over their neighborhoods. It is such a shame to see how they each give so much of themselves to only get knocked back down again and again by the corrupt city council! Absolutely disgusting!! It really is a must see for everyone.

3/20/18. This is a difficult documentary to watch because you have all of a sudden become privy to what police officers have to deal with on a daily basis in a somewhat neglected and impoverished town with way too many problems for its way too tiny police department. If you ever want to become a police officer, you should probably watch this to test your commitment. These officers are so totally dedicated to what they do that it's incredible what they have to put up with on a daily basis. While it is about Flint Town, it really is more about how its police department functions and how it deals with issues that are way above their heads. Their jobs are the hardest in the world.

..... a decimated and demoralized Flint Michigan Police force struggling to cope with violent crime after the city's downward spiral into an epidemic of record-high murder rates.

The opening shows scenes of Flint as it was during the boom years and which began to crumble in the late 70's following the closing of the Chevrolet and Buick factories, two of GM's biggest plants.

At one time, Flint had the highest per capita income of blue collar workers in America. I know, because I lived and worked there for a while during its boom years. Businesses flourished and the nightlife scene, a sure indicator of disposable income, was New Year's Eve virtually every night.

The factory closings led to massive unemployment which in turn bred the violent and virtually uncontrollable crime rate. Neither City Hall nor the State Government succeeded in finding secondary industries to replace GM's closed plants. The drug industry boomed.

Due to the economic crash, the Police force shrunk from a high of over five hundred officers down to one hundred or so due to City Hall mismanagement, graft, incompetence and the misappropriation of the city finances.

The documentary reveals the problems and frustrations of the skeleton police force through the eyes of its Chief and various police officers who patrol streets of boarded up, condemned houses in poverty stricken, drug infested neighborhoods whose poorly educated residents seem condemned to never escape their toxic environment.

It's well done and worth watching.

Superb documentary reflecting not only the human element of the police officers in Flint but the community they serve.

From some one who lives in England where officers are unarmed and police through concent it was fascinating to see extremely brace law enforcement through austerity.

Great soundtrack and cinematography gives this documentary a real edge.

Big respect to the Flint PD bravest!

Rated from a documentary standpoint:

Plot: 10/10 Production: 9.5/10 Storyline: 10/10 Characters: 9/10 Setting: 10/10 Realism: 7.5/10

This is by far the best production I have ever seen. Hands down.

Unbiased, professional, and extremely appealing from a production standpoint (speaking of which, where do they find these people?). It does not immediately investigate the "water crisis" like one would likely expect. Instead, it communicates the real problem at hand, the hostility between a community and its cities officials.

This series does not stop there. It constantly holds your attention, refusing to be anything like similar series' where the same content is repeated episode after episode. The second a certain topic in "Flint Town" begins to sour a completely new position is introduced and examined - exactly how the media should be. This isn't about taking sides. This is about hearing every single voice in the community and determining what the best solution is to improve the level of comfort and safety felt in the community.

In satisfying this mission they complete another objective without any intention, leading viewers to the realization that maybe the government isn't 'really' out to get them - maybe it's really their fellow citizens.

Overall I must give this series a solid 10/10. Phenomenal from nearly all perspectives.