the city of into. a short drive down the hill from the hollywood dream they south-central one of the most notorious addresses on the planet. like his famous neighbor south central has made his place in the imagination and. beyond the fiction the reality of this residence lives seldom touches the t.v. screens in movie theaters of the one you're. 'd gonna have to notice and recall the 2012 police chase an armed robbery suspect across the city. am i the driver and carjack the mob is following the law and shooting arrows to draw wild pursuit be an expert in the field with. the sounds and.

i am getting from come to the chase continued into the neighboring district i was awesomely. a more narrow narrow 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 dentistry games or civil unrest and home to one of america's most neglected on the hospital my only o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o cause i'm not an infamous psycho. but as a suspect the band in his car that home they were particularly plentiful as the yamaha and prosperous and by the i am by our city's chief of police charlie beck while today where our oil giveaway where i am as i had started

airports well i began to transfer ban them. i am happy. i am going to show you we ran across there were people screaming that a resistor is parents who are grabbing kids and i am going to scare you. because even knowing. the story. for some american is still the land of opportunity for running out of options going into trauma is a recurring theme in the area of the us well expectancy in los angeles county missouri and find her. arms while. i try. to. call hollywood often looks to south central for

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sets are made. like 3 generations. you got the old g you got the. homie you got the little homes you know say. for instance like this is a little homey writing to me. and now my homie dean you got the old geezers order to me you know to me. so. i got 3 generation to hang on to me as mater. right now we're in the imperial course housing projects you know and so p.j. crips on the east side. you know what i mean is based in watts which is cool going to oun unable. to. put out any given said anything can happen. you know it might be all laughing again

right now for a game. and 5 minutes later and i'm going to. some people from. the gang of. people you know really don't have family that i can count on and want to ever so again give them that support you know stability to make them feel like you know they got their own i am. me you join me again it's like. everybody else all know that's where 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 that you can trust you know what i mean but you have to earn everything and again. i get in a couple of donna's room i hate them all to come back but it's hard to get and i

was mean i'm standing watching your back burner only you make sure nobody around me know nobody. come away that we don't know trying to hurt nobody over here you know as i would go every day. but you know everybody so we don't know you don't come over here so i believe that. time of the day for me is the story. you know i'm out to check a few traps. and the food places. i'm sure everything is everything. so you. handle a long. time . and. there's up to. you.

every day you never know what you'll get up to 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. in alone the way of saying. going there you can. crack cocaine the deal. one of the number one drill. you got. close to 1st place is crystal meth. you know that's. taking away a lot of people right about. courts

jordan downs nixon gardens long gardens and. the largest ones over are going to be jordan downs nickerson and imperial courts basically there's a different gang and 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 in and different things are in there different subsets of the same game they're all creature eclipse and then there's a lot of conflict within the gangs and. in between the games 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 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 doper than we're going to go we. want to boys you know average up to a dollar 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 a. regular money back. so do.

not told me. i get a good thing every day think riza i get paid every day every day i do a good count for you barry. please in a large amount 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 making the money. they say. they don't have a. right

. to move up to you to. supply him making those dollars you know him saying. no you get him and you've got to get it or you know i'm saying it's a lot of people we don't know mom and dad so you know he has had a screeching look forward to the streets and they say you got it you know be a thing and then get on from there you know looking back. you know it was fun to go home to. be like i don't know. enough to know right. now. you just feel it's one. we game and we represent this project live we always do it out but at the same time

as still something else out there bigger than this i'm not i never stop playing now this model that i lead as pays to devils us want to see some beer for all of us to grow to succeed off got people that cared enough to wait for the bot. but what about every day when they try to get everybody not to have their good. time to stop. to put it through. the day was period was a day. with no make this manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the running plus a summer project themselves. with the final. lifts

only the one percent. with no middle of the room sick. of us can last a moment a last chance to ask for the last 70 and seeing and on the rest day for the dutch.

christian. branches just shoot on disk in the. no mommy. leachate mom. you know you look are so set on the open you must pay me mama just back ya know.

moved to the big time they mailed me more wrong. and it's. really for the surveillance photos we got it was. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to to sell 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 wouldn't 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 theater 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 any given street in watts is either a liquor store or a funeral home or in a church. you need to live my life. you know. i was going to. have one of the campaign you're like oh you don't you. are showing that we're going to hear you let down like you want to lie in your state hustling

you know saying 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 on me you know saying i feel like you can't make it you know i'm saying there's a way you can make it all me they got programs for you to get it to how many you can get you a job or a legitimate job homie and i have to worry about all that man with the clothes that the people go to help me get a job they. grow. i mean. i'm tired i'm ready to give up their so you've been accustomed to. say. access to good grounds and you know if they're out here on the streets to get hanged and rifles you know assault rifle that bag for less than a $1000.00. here you know the heart is here and it is very little to keep this

honest now not hard but the way men and i had to go here work you know selfishly. in a game it down to you know got to play the crowd is right my route you know no hammer no i see it if everything's going to move that's all that it can't do try to play some game going where you out there see the street oh my lord just a spade right here we call this out of my it really can satisfy. it is really going to be a good look at it go to a just look i guess i got to put it down town clear no doubt not talk about side by side i've lost many friends in my life time but the passing of my brother. would give me the most. was that i was a big toll on the passing of my brothers but i deal with them every day using that other every day when i lost in a frame before you and me so it had heard me but. not to the extent

that i lost my brother. i mean and then a few years later my so i lose my sister my sister geeky oh. so i still haven't recovered from all that like the saddest feel taken oh you know toll on me to where i haven't found a way to cope. in. 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 incidents 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 and look forwards 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 male lineal. 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 with 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 them for they feel like they are someone. however well we try to be is really to let them know you don't need again you 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 in teh gritty 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 is something going now my guess what it's no yellow tape but yeah this is how we do it though who knows we put 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 actions you know you don't have to walk out there because you know when to 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 to far the fatal shot to 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 performing. to see what they're going. to get

that they need it. would be. very. just right to. let him know what. they are just very trained. c.p.r. certified may still be all the time they're going to be down here because 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 then just 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 325-0000

we can in sales just in this develop could be biased. their rival gang rape even creeps in the same problem they do make money in sales narcotics in 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 the earth they bring high powered rifles. and usually when you see a group like that hanging out they were going to spot. this place is 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. start calling ourselves to

bonnie hunt and it was a murder that took place on the bonnie hunt 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 good 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. we've got a crumbling infrastructure roads bridges tunnels are not working we've got students that are in massively in debt and probably will never add to the productivity of society all because of this and the propaganda that debt doesn't matter we just

know it to ourselves. why a paradise with some around turned into a round the experimentation field the agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power.

what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be close this is what will before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of. course should. as you know that i. was.

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