Ashier terrier (6 able to represent november only option people that, along with the 2016 presidential campaign oh, it seems ago forms the backdrop of Flint Town. Even before that, it had earned a bad reputation, ranking year after year among the nation's most violent, and poorest, municipalities, but with fewer than 100 officers to serve a city of 100. Says one officer, There's no real policing done when you're taking that calls. You're just driving to addresses like a UPS The series begins advance of the November 2015 election that brought a new mayor, Weaver, a Flint native and with her a new police chief, is something of a go-getter I'm not a politician, I'm a crime fighter, and crime fighting, he says, is something he can do sleep who talks about zero tolerance and sets up a special tactical crime area target team staffed with hard chargers. He gets results, for a while, but charging hard inevitably prove to have its critics as well as it supporters. Flint Town has the expensive look of theatrical fictional filmmaking; it glories snow and green. Holidays come and go: Christmas, the Fourth of July, Halloween, Christmas again. There are artful shots of the moon through clouds and fireflies a yard, of goldfish, a dog's eyes, even a coffee maker making coffee. Its prettiness usefully reminds the viewer that there is more to Flint than crime. other respects, it is a little too gorgeous for its own good, aestheticizing crime scene tape, blood splatter, shell casings, abandoned houses, the hand of a corpse the snow. Similarly, it goes from scenes of patient observation to those that indulge the stylistic tics of cop shows. The filmmaking sometimes gets the way of the film. The police are seen alternately as aggressive, awkward and understanding, and always under stress. The budget, and whether the department lose even more officers have been laid off and rehired before is a main narrative thread. Given the series' length, it develops surprisingly few substantial personal story lines. There are people here, with things to say and do, personally or politically, but most don't develop into full-fledged characters. Among those who do are police officers Robert Frost, a 12-year veteran whose earliest memory is of a police siren, and Balasko, three years with sights on the detective desk and, beyond that, the FBI. Minor spoiler: They're a relationship. Each is Hollywood attractive they look like actors who would be hired to play them on television and willing to get personal. The series' other main personal focus is the development of cadet training at the regional police academy a class that also includes his mother, who has a fiancee and a child and has lost old friends joining the force, goes on a journey from exuberance I want to somebody, I think that would be the funnest part to experience: Most of the time they just want someone and need someone to talk to, he say of the people he eventually meets on the job. Flint Town is perhaps longer than it needs to be, which is something of a premium-television trend. Yet I watched it all a single go without getting fidgety. It's clear, even from a little casual outside research, that there is more to Flint than the stories told here and more to the stories told here than is told here but all documentaries necessarily leave things out. This one concentrates on crises. What the filmmakers show is all worth a look, and maybe a second one. It opens you up to different, conflicting points of view or at least reminds you that they exist which is just what you want from such a series. Cops, we all pretty much spend the first four, five years doing the same thing, learning how to be the police, says Brian Willingham an African American officer and Flint native who becomes the series' most eloquent voice on race. And then it becomes a matter of how the reality sets for you. Best Friends Pet Care of Indianapolis has consolidated operations with Best Friends Pet Care of effective February 1 st, 2017. Please visit us at our location 376 Gradle Drive 46032-7387 for your Boarding, Doggy Day Care, Grooming, and Training needs. For pet