In a new installment of her Black in America series, award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien uses graphic videos and incisive interviews to show how the lives of young men are fractured by aggressive policing. Her documentary film, BLACK & BLUE, takes us into the lives of men frisked without cause as many as 100 times, and the police officers who insist they're just fighting crime.

Between 2002 through mid-2013, the New York Police Department (NYPD) reported making more than 5 million stops. More than 80 percent of those stopped were African American or Latino, and 88 percent of the stops did not result in arrests, summons, or evidence of any crime, O’Brien reports with her co-directors Ross Tuttle and Steve Maing.

“What is so shocking is that this police practice was used around the country – and in some places still is – with the theory that police were stopping criminals,” said O’Brien. “It’s shocking that the city where this was popularized was stopping so many innocent people."

BLACK & BLUE brings you the personal stories of the men affected by those aggressive policing tactics, men whose friends were able to document the confrontations on shocking videos. O’Brien rides along with fearful police officers patrolling high crime areas who believe the “stop and frisk” tactic was catching only would-be criminals.

But a police officer, his identity concealed, tells O’Brien the police were not doing it to fight crime, but to fulfill arrest quotas established for senior officials. “Everything is numbers based…Summonses must be written; the arrests must be made…,” he says.

New York ushered in a new mayor with a mandate to transform policing. Yet he made a curious choice: appointing the same police commissioner that initiated these policing tactics years ago. “I’ve been a cop for 44 years…So, I can understand some of the attitudes and beliefs,” William Bratton, NYPD Commissioner tells O’Brien.

The one-hour Black in America special, BLACK & BLUE, is produced by O'Brien’s Starfish Media Group. The special will premiere Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 9:00pm, with encores at 12:00am, and again on Sunday, Nov. 23 at 7:00pm. All times are Eastern on CNN/U.S.

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