A feature on policing in ghettoized neighbourhoods, the people who live there and the police who work out there, started in 2018.

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We already have:

+200

audio recordings

4

years of investigations

60

original soundtracks

30

illustrations

We are now:

  • Writing episode 13 of 14;
  • Designing the sound for the first six episodes;
  • Editing the structure and text of episodes 11 and 12;
  • Implementing the pages for episodes 3 and 4 on the site;
  • Designing the pages for episodes 5, 8, 9 and 11;
  • Mixing the soundtrack for the series;
  • Reading “No More Police. A Case For Abolition.“, by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie;
  • Awaiting rulings from the courts regarding FOIA requests;
  • Preparing our communications strategy and materials.

While you wait for the launch, take a look and listen to published work that led us to embark on this investigation and that will form part of the series:

“Chelas nha Kau” Documentary

Between 2015 and 2020, the Divergente team led a multimedia workshop with young people from the Zona J social housing project in Chelas, Lisbon. The network of trust established during those years meant that, when we embarked on this feature, we had direct access to many of the people who we interview here. A documentary born of one group of friends’ desire to tell their story and that of their neighbourhood, produced by Bataclan 1950 and the Bagabaga Studios cooperative, home to Divergente.
See the whole film here.