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Law, policing & justice Videos Recommended on Hacker News (188)
Law, policing & justice is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 188 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 387 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Law and justice: criminal justice, police tactics, courts, Supreme Court, prisons, legal explainers, drug policy, intellectual property and patents, true crime investigations, regulation.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Don't Talk to the Police: “If you don't know why, you must watch this” — an HN commenter, 2021.
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1 mo on HNWhy Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNProsecutors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2018–2019
1 mo on HNWhy Every Japanese Criminal is Guilty
Rare Earth
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNDEF CON 17 - Deviant Ollam - Packing and the Friendly Skies
DEFCONConference
1 HN recommend · 2015–2023
1 mo on HNFacebook Freebooting - Smarter Every Day 128
SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2015–2019
1 mo on HNWatch Cops Seize Combat Vet's Life Savings [RARE FOOTAGE]
Institute for Justice
1 HN recommend · 2022–2022
1 mo on HNDaily Fantasy Sports: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2015–2021
1 mo on HNA Man For All Seasons - Giving the Devil the Benefit of Law
CrassHeretic
1 HN recommend · 2018–2024
1 mo on HNA Man for All Seasons - The Devil Speech
dniete97
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
1 mo on HNGlitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)
Mark Rober
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNDoing Time Doing Vipassana - Full official version
Karuna Films LTD
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNAir Traffic Control: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNPrediction Markets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2026–2026
1 mo on HNFood Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNIan Hislop on Capital Punishment
Captain Soul
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HNLocksmith ripoffs: Hidden camera investigation (Marketplace)
CBC News
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNKia Boys Documentary (A Story of Teenage Car Theft)
Tommy G
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNBill Gates - Microsoft Antitrust Deposition - Highlights
Joe John
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNAll Creative Work Is Derivative
Question Copyright
1 HN recommend · 2012–2022
1 mo on HNDoes Canada’s Bill C-16 Violate Free Speech or Protect Human Rights? | The Agenda
TVO Today
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNThis LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
ReasonTV
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNPolice Interrogations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNAfroman - Will You Help Me Repair My Door (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
ogafroman
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNCopyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis
TEDx Talks
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNAdam Ruins Everything - The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal
truTV
1 HN recommend · 2018–2022
1 mo on HN4th of July DUI Checkpoint - Drug Dogs, Searched without Consent, while Innocent
Chris Voluntaryist
1 HN recommend · 2014–2016
1 mo on HNHow Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)
Practical Engineering
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HNSacrifices to the Church of Nintendo
EmpLemon
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNHow to Stop a Riot
Wendover Productions
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
0 mo on HNPolicing the internet in Germany, where hate speech, insults are a crime | 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
0 HN recommender · 2025–2025
0 mo on HNPeople React To DUI Laws(1980s News Report)
Cut The Shorts
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025
0 mo on HNMy first interview with Sam Bankman-Fried
Tiffany Fong
0 HN recommender · 2022–2023
0 mo on HNUnarmed man begs for life, shot by police
CNN
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HN2015 Nissan Tsuru vs. 2016 Nissan Versa
IIHS
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021
0 mo on HNUK Cops Disarm Man Wielding a Machete | Firsthand | CBC
CBC
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNApple & Customs STOLE my batteries, that they won't even provide to AASPs.
Louis Rossmann
0 HN recommender · 2018–2021