Toronto International Film Festival, 2019
"Policemen lie to their children every night." — James Comey, Former FBI Director
There's probably no group of people so present in our daily lives, and yet so little understood, as the police. Addressing a convention of police chiefs, former FBI director James Comey once observed that officers tell their kids monsters aren't real — even though the officers themselves know otherwise.
Police protect us and serve us, and yet somehow remain apart from us — and we from them. Coppers is an attempt to close that distance, if only a little.