police chase an armed robbery suspect across the suv. the driver carjacked a motorist following the. wild pursuit next in the field. heading from come to the chase continued into the neighboring district of the most . part. of. the suspects destination is the imperial court built as temporary housing up to the 2nd world war the project and those around it survived and became synonymous with the origins of the the street gangs civil unrest and home to one of america's most neglected. only only only only only o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o newsroom

a cruiser not an unfamiliar sight. but as the suspect abandoned his car that they were particularly plentiful left to the public sponsored by the police. the city's chief of police charlie beck but today we're have it for you the way it will be. interesting. and. initially we ran across there were people screaming parents who were grabbing kids. knowing. for so america only still be the land of opportunity for running out of options get into trouble is a. during the period of the worst way expectancy in los angeles county area and

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busy sets are made. like 3 generations. you got the old gee you got the homey you got the little home you know it's there. for us to like there's a little homey right here on me. and i'm homey and then you got the old z. that's order me you know to me. so. as i got 3 generation gang on to me as mater. right now we're in an imperial course housing projects you know so p.j. cripps on the east side. you know i mean it was based in watts just cool going

to enable. that any give i said anything can happen. you know it might be on laugh again right now finding again. in 5 minutes later and i'm going to. some people from. the gang of. some people you know really don't have family at a town and want to ever so again give them that support you know stability to make you feel like you know they got from town oh and. when you join again it's like me everybody's all know that's where i come from so it's like if i hang with somebody her 2 months and i know what a front we got

a little good didn't know saying this will make people join again a family that you can relate to you know people as you can trust you know what i mean but you have to earn everything and again. i get to get a couple of dallas in my opinion on a comeback but it's hard to get in dollars main and saying i'm watching your back burner until you make sure nobody for me no nobody come away that we don't know trying to hurt nobody over here you know as i would go every day and say but you know everybody so i will know you don't come away simple as that. typical day for me it's a story. you know come out to check a few traps. into food places and. i'm sure everything is very. well you. oh man oh form.

oh lord. i have. heard that to. you. every day you never know what you'll get out until you can wake up and say you going to check in school but end up shooting somebody so every day is a different day and every day as a struggle for a lot of people that don't have it so we try to get it by any means necessary. this place is so if you go. away. crack cocaine is. one of the number one. you've got.

close to 1st place is crystal meth. you know that's. taking away a lot of people right in the. courts jordan downs nickerson gardens along gardens. the largest ones over are going to be jordan downs nickerson and imperial courts basically there's a different gang in each one of them nickerson gardens has bounty hunter bloods it's a it's a really large gang a couple 1000 members i'm sure in imperial they've got some some pretty good names they've got i think funny side till side i'm not sure where all these names come from the great street which is in jordan downs you're going to have things like pita roll and different games that are in there different subsets of the same game

they're all creature eclipse and there there's a lot of conflict within the gangs and. in between the gangs most of the conflict i would say revolves around money and most of that money is made through dope sales they do have other activities but that's that's the main source of most of their income. and that's what drives a lot of the violence that's out here we have. we're way down in murders historically for this area but we're still i think we're up to 40 for this year and i am not sure but i think this division is only 10 square miles and you've had 40 murders and that's that's the lowest amount of murders we've had in decades and it's virtually all gang related there are some that aren't and you have some domestic violence but most of it's gang related and a lot of it's dope with we're going to go we.

want to poison our job to a tower and out of the day every day. as an average corner or want to avoid a really got it together you can you know make a living more than that. bring your own life back. joel do. told me if i get a good thing every day take resume i get paid every day every day i do a good count for you barry. unease in the large amount of. you have to be a large amount of anything is money to be made you can make money off of marijuana

crack christo anyone but you if you got a large amount that's when you make enough money. they say. they don't have a. right . to move up to you he's going to. supply him making those dollars you know him saying. you know you get it and you got to get it or you know i'm saying it's a lot of people we don't know momma no daddy so you know he has had a screeching look for told the streets and they say he got it you know be a thing and then get on from there you know looking back. you know it was fun to be home to. be like here. you are here and. i'm not going to write.

you just a few minutes when. we game a we represent a project live and always do it out but at the same time a still something else out there bigger than this i'm not i'll never stop playing now this motto that i learned as to the devils this want to see some beer for all of us to grow to succeed off got be that counted out to wait for the bot. i'm waiting. every day man i gotta get me one not get there good. time to stop. complaining through. the day was playable on day one.

give me my best. is not no but i'm also the most companies you know i've been a kid who says you know. when i meet. company she will speak. to me nobody gets me didn't you know just to see me she has put oh you little. time and i'm going to. miss you live in you i don't know you kind of these people. think they. come to your list. so do you.

know men because he. seemed wrong. rowles just don't call. me lol yet to see how it. comes to cancer. and indeed from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. officer. told him to get up off the ground the officer began to pat him down.

and then place on the sounds of fighting in the grown man like wrestling essentially the officer. through his window. through which to do away from the officer. of his crew. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the web in one's midst and then when it happened on trace one as i didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the 2 any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again 15 feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he did it on 3.

moved to the big time they mailed me more wrong. and it's. only through the surveillance photos that we got it was. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to do so marijuana to put food on the table it's ok to sell practical food on my table and it's i got a tail it's really hard when you get into the community and you see how some people live and you see that there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that have to eat and as a parent. i can't come up with a logical argument to say that if i were in that situation and that's the only option i had that i would do the same thing and so it's been really important to me

to try and build some understanding in the police officers in the realities of the community and that doesn't mean by any. any sense that i condone it or i will let it go on especially since the other reality is that almost all the homicides that we do have are directly wrapped around narcotics and narcotics sales and so you might have people that will claim it's a victimless crime it's not there are people dying over it several years ago in the early sixty's this community was predominantly white and you had the steel mills and you had a lot of economic growth and then the riots came out a lot of those folks and a lot of those businesses left the community one big. because of fear too because of the folks within the community destroyed themselves and it was hard to get economic growth and development back into this community because of the fear and i feel like south los angeles has just been left and pushed to the side since the

1965 riots and that i don't believe there's been enough time in dedication and passion income compassion and fight for equality to build this community we need to get past the riots kind of a weird thing to say because that happened a long time ago it's been 20 years since the last one but the riots of 65 riots the 92 riots left a huge scar in this community they left a scar in this community that has caused a business not to be able to come back. until we can bring business back to this community it can thrive there isn't a sit down restaurant in watts there isn't a movie theatre in watts we do not have a y.m.c.a. or a boys and girls club or a large community center where a child can go after school to receive tutoring in sports and an afterschool program on a larger scale and every other store i mean given street unwinds is either

a liquor store or an 18 year old home or in a church. you . need to live my life. you know. that was very. very intense and well you know look at me like. are you showing that we're going to hear you let down like you want to lie in your state hustle you know stand stay hustlin really before felon bros i was really home no redemption all day and one day and i'm not going to you just like i'm not going to

you know that i'll believe you and not say i'll be here with nobody to you i mean even by being you you'll be in a failing army you know saying i feel like you can't make it you know i'm saying there's a way you can make it on me there are programs that you would get into how many you can get you a job or a legitimate job homie and then at the word about all that money but the good the people got to help me get a job they got ready to. throw. me. i'm tired i'm ready to give work so you've been accustomed to. say. access to good drugs you know if they're out here on the streets to get hang in rifles you know assault rifle that bag for less than a $1000.00. here you know the heart is here and it is that. you keep this honest now not hard but to a man and i had to go here work you know selfishly. you know gave it dab you know

got to be crowded right at my router you know no hammer no i see it if everything's going to move that's all that it comes to trying to play some game going where you go out there see the street oh i'm going to stay right here we call this out of not really going satisfy. it is really going to be a good look at it go to just look at us i got to get it down town clear no doubt now talk about side by side i've lost many friends of the my life time but the passing of my brother was with me the most. was and i was a big toll on the passing of my brothers but i deal with them every day using that other every day and i lost plenty of friends before you were mean so you know had heard me but. not to the extent that i lost my brother. i mean and in a few years later my so i lose my sister my sister geeky oh. so i still

haven't recovered from all that like deep down the saddest feel taken oh you know toll on me to where i haven't found a way to cope yet. any . there's been a great number of shooting incidents which have occurred right outside. right outside between the church and a liquor store as a matter of fact a few years ago i was told by the sheriff's department there there were more shooting incident that have occurred right outside our church than anywhere else in south l.a. . and try to be open

to all different types of people because we're in an area where people who are constantly hurting and costly in need so we have to look beyond ourself in the boards helping people we have so many people that don't have a father so i can serve as our role model and that image and to give a positive light on many people who haven't seen productive african-american males . very. good you know. back. to. you know the beautiful. my older brother was a gang member and my young brother was a gang member so i understand what happens where gangs and oftentimes

when people are trying to find themself they'll search and search and then they'll find again and some of the gangs they give them a sense of worth they feel important they feel like they are someone. however well we try to is really to let them know you don't need again have a sense of self-worth dad with the lord on your side that you can have a different sense of self-worth and you don't have to depend. anyone and besides that you can get involved in something this on a pile integrity you can be more. good news mason we started like this we will look up in a sky and starving l.a. we saw a lot of helicopters in the sky we knew something was going on so we want to track that down and. it's something going now my guess what it's no yellow tape but yeah this is how we do it the hood knows we put it down flop people as we go do we will

find out what happens if i go boy do it you feel me. the cameras a very powerful weapon and once you have that camera on the camera doesn't lie on action you know you don't have to walk out there because you know or do any of that stuff your camera is your house is not going to live the l.a.p.d. murdered an unarmed teenager in the imperial courts housing projects thursday afternoon to teenager identified as james davis dislodged his weapon began to run witnesses say police retrieved his weapon and fired a fatal shot into the teenager's back after james davis was shot he was handcuffed and then denied medical attention from a nurse who happen to be on site as he lay dying when i shot to the back a nurse was on the same who actually lives in imperial forces she was visiting there will be able to start the pharmacy. to see what they're going. to get that they need it right with me. yeah

pretty much just write. a letter you know what. they were just training. c.p.r. certified and they still read all the time they're going to be down here dorothy you are in charge of the police i shot somebody in broad daylight in front of everybody stand over him while he died i covered that story and it's another sad story. this block here is 115th street one of the busiest rock cocaine spots by far and ones but i would say even in the country. in my experience nobody does more. than the bombing on the bloods and i mean the money is huge it's probably $30.00 to $50000.00 a week in and sales just in this developed would be biased. their rival gang great

being critics of the same problem they do make money in sales and narcotics and the motivation to stay within the gang is nice alive in haiti it's an ongoing feud between the great 3 crips and the bonnie hunt of bloods we've had 4 murders in the last week and i think into the murders were 847 so when they go out on what they call a mission or a murder they bring high powered rifles. and usually when you see a group like that hanging out they were going to spot. just places what you call the mothership. the bloods. originated here if you're going to western movies they had to bounty hunters. and during that time they used to you know watch the western movies and always talk about the bounty hunters and that's how we was created we took that same piece. star college now so. it was a murder that took place on the bond of blood he was stabbed to death outside the

area you could see right here is a vigil they love to honor their dead. when there's a murder between 2 powerful gangs a few results from the one incident if he kills a bonding honor then the bombing i'm going to get together and they need to retaliate and the more violent gang is the more respect it has the more violent gang it is the more successful they are the most violent the gang is the more the community feels that they are intimidated and they can't do anything about it and that's how they. on the streets. cass calendar is drawing alfonzo along. this changing page he's dard serve the old guard. his 1st words were added i will see you're a challenging post you've got 2 years to live. i

have no doubt that what happened was criminal. defense calls in trademark it is a $1000000000.00 industry these companies have a huge financial motivation to solve these problems there are numerous stuff showing that doctors were keen to test concentrates for insights of its own that patients want gives them says the wrong stoplight. term to start with why they would keep me from security procedures. on people still die i don't know which question or so i tried being hard to leave so many have. to quit frowning at you know.

i'm a little but i think. one days we're body. a lot on. one of them when i do you should have an extra. i don't want or i can't afford. yes. you know that in the community yeah. bloom get into any kind of chicken dance in the name the names of the power of a little the less you know enough about them beforehand. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig

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