a significant number [of LAPD officers] who "repetitively use excessive force against the public and persistently ignore the written guidelines of the department regarding force."
L.A.P.D. offices are encouraged to command and confront, not to communicate.
Minority officers are often targets of racial slurs within the police department, the report said. It also said the department's management consistently discouraged citizen complaints against officers and ignored racism and sexism.
Em uma entrevista ao Rolling Stone, o Ice Cube, membro do NWA, está citado :
We were living in the middle of dope dealing, gangbanging, police brutality, fucking Reaganomics, and there was nowhere to escape.
Quanto a alguns dos encontros com a polícia no filme, vamos detalhar alguns deles:
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Há uma cena em que os membros do N.W.A. são perseguidos por policiais da LAPD enquanto estão fora de seu estúdio de gravação. De acordo com uma fonte de The Guardian, isso realmente aconteceu. No entanto, este incidente não inspirou o conceito da música "Fuck tha Police.":
In the movie, it happens outside a recording studio in Torrance, California where they are recording their first album, Straight Outta Compton. In real life, members of the group did get harassed by cops in 1987 outside of Audio Achievements in Torrance while they were recording their first album. However, the incident didn't help to inspire the concept for their song "F*** Tha Police." Ice Cube had developed the concept for the song long before Dr. Dre agreed to record it (Dre wanted to wait until he no longer had to go to jail on weekends as punishment for too many traffic violations)
- O concerto em Detroit, Michigan, onde N.W.A. foram expulsos do palco e presos.
De acordo com o Detroit Free Press , NWA foram presos, mas não do jeito que foi retratado no filme:
Ice Cube told a British talk show host in 2014: "We agreed to [not perform 'Fuck tha Police' on tour] until we got mad at the promoter. We were like, ‘Tonight we're going to do that song.’” He continued: “We saw the whole Detroit police department rush the stage. They threw fireworks and stuff onstage. We took off running. Some guys ran out of the arena, to the hotel. They corralled us, arrested us all, and all they wanted was damn autographs for their daughters and sons.”
In the film, N.W.A are arrested in front of the auditorium and the crowd nearly starts a riot. However, in reality the group weren't arrested until they made it back to the hotel. Reportedly, the police waited in the lobby until N.W.A went down to gather up that night's groupies, and then calmly made their arrests.
Sim, houve algumas liberdades tomadas em prol do licenciamento de criativos, mas parece que, com esses casos, houve pouca aceitação. Os factos não podem ser contestados de que a corrupção policial e o racismo eram uma questão muito real que os membros do N.W.A. tinha que conviver diariamente.