In The Seats With...Stephen Janis and Kelvin Sewell for 'The Friendliest Town'

You couldn't make up this story if you tried... On this episode we talk with journalist Stephen Janis and Subject Kelvin Sewell about their new film 'The Friendliest Town' In 2011, Pocomoke City a small town on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore hired Kelvin Sewell, its first African-American police chief. Sewell, a former Baltimore city homicide investigator and narcotics officer had grown tired of the aggressive tactics used by the Baltimore Police Department...particularly those targeting black communities. Determined to deploy a different approach to law enforcement, Sewell implemented an intensive community policing plan. He and his officers parked their cars and walked the streets. Sewell's system worked: crime plummeted. Residents both black and white became ardent supporters of Sewell's new paradigm of policing. But a conflict was brewing; an ongoing dispute over racial discrimination engulfed Sewell and his officers in a battle that would not only cost them their jobs and professional reputations, but would thrust them into an emotional legal battle that would touch all segments of the community. I can't stress enough how important it is that this story (and stories like it) still get told because it's the only way we'll truly be able to stop systemic racism in so many aspects of our society. We got to talk with Stephen and Kelvin about exactly that as well as the importance of being their to document it.