Stephen Maing is a New York-based filmmaker and fellow of the Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program. His recent film, High Tech, Low Life, was broadcast on PBS’s award-winning series P.O.V. He is a grant recipient of the MacArthur Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and the Independent Television Service, and an adjunct professor at Massachusetts College of Art.
How the New York City Council’s Community Safety Act stands the best chance of curtailing the NYPD’s most destructive racial profiling practices.