The documentary 'Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops' follows two San Antonio police officers assigned to a mental health unit as they put compassionate policing practices into action.
Your typical buddy cop movie often relies on the tension between mismatched partners to navigate certain action-comedy requirements and dispatch bad guys with fists flying, guns blazing and wisecracks wielded. Aside from the wisecracks, “Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops” is definitely not that kind of movie.
For one thing, it’s a documentary. And if serious issues ever existed between Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro, members of the San Antonio Police Department’s groundbreaking mental health unit, they’ve long moved past them to the kind of relationship that would be the envy of many a marriage. These plainclothes Texas lawmen go out of their way to avoid conflict, practicing compassion and courage as they attend to the distressed souls they encounter on this specialized beat.
Director Jennifer McShane offers both a closely observed character study of two regular guys on the job, and a quiet piece of advocacy that uses the powerful negative space of what we don’t see — namely violence — to argue for a calmer, gentler approach to how law enforcement and society at large should deal with mentally ill people.
Physically, and emotionally, the two officers could be brothers, yet they carry very different back stories. Joe is a Marine Corps vet in his 30s with PTSD and five kids from three different women. A decade older, Ernie is a family man who unwinds by helping his daughter with her homework, practicing martial arts and reading the Bible.
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