Netflix Docuseries 🎥 Review: “Flint Town”.

Critics rated it 95%, Users a 91%

Rated: TV-MA with eight 45 min episodes and an IMDb of 8.0/10.

This docuseries takes a look at the state of policing in America through the experiences of the Flint Michigan Police Department. Flint is consistently among the country's most violent cities and its residents have little trust in law enforcement officials in the wake of the coverup of a citywide water contamination that brought the city into the national spotlight.

Flint Town is an eight episode American documentary television series that was released on Netflix on March 2, 2018. The documentary focuses on the thoughts and conflicted emotions of the men and women serving to protect urban areas of Flint, Michigan struggling with poverty, crime, financially strapped public services and the Flint water crisis. The series covers a period from November 2015 to early 2017, the same time frame as the 2016 presidential election.

The department captured on-screen is down from 300 cops to 98 for 100,000 people, the lowest number out of comparably sized cities. Over the course of the episodes, the police faced a crucial millage vote and a city government wrangling over funding.

To put this in perspective Flint (according to the FBI) is #1 the country for crime and one of the poorest cities in the US. You can only imagine the horrendous hurdles this PD has to face every minute of every day. When you think of Flint Michigan you immediately gravitate top the horrible drinking water conditions they are strapped with…even today it’s still happening!

This series will painfully take you through their day to day life struggles, as seen thru the eyes of the men and women in blue. They are the real people trying to keep the community together with only 1/3 the manpower. It’s 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!!

This is an excellent Netflix docuseries. Thank you Netflix! Nobody else was getting to the heart of this. It really is a must see for everyone. Stick with it - it is at times politically charged, however the human struggles are the crooks of the matter. I couldn’t stop watching and binged the whole 8 episodes in one sitting.