i am . 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 its famous

neighbor south central has made its 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 a car attack on the us following a car on shooting at a transistor after a while pursue next in the food. sounds and. i am getting from come to the chase continued into the neighboring district of oz. one chanter i am the suspects destination is the imperial court builder's temporary

housing of 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 because no 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000 cars are not an unfamiliar cycle. but as the suspect abandoned his car that home they were particularly plentiful as the yard. poetry sponsored by the palace. and the city's chief of police charlie beck but today we're having a toy giveaway which president's. words. uttered interesting. past. because initially when he ran across there were people screaming that they were

stairs parents were grabbing kids and family is going to scare the kids. to see him knowing the only story. for some american is still in the land of opportunity for running out of options and into trouble is a recurring theme in the area the as well expectancy in los angeles county missouri and. her. arms while. i try. to. call hollywood often looks to south central for inspiration of those that live in moscow of them so.

sets are made. like 3 generations. you got the old gee you got the homie you got the little home you know say. for instance like this is a little homey right to me. and i'm homey.

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 around unable. to. put out any good i said anything can happen. you know it might be our laughing game right now for a game. and 5 minutes later and i'm going to. some people from. the gang of. some people you know really don't have family that they could count on to want to ever so again give them that support you know

stability to make you feel like you know they got from town i am. me you join me again it's like. everybody else on the that's where come for so it's like if i hang with somebody hurt. and i know what a for we got a little good you know 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 to get a couple of dollars in my opinion on a comeback that is very beginning dollars i mean i'm standing watching your back burner you. and me you 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 simple as that. typical day for me it's

a story. you know amount to check a few traps. into food places and. i'm sure everything is everything. you believe. and it wasn't long. time. and. there's a. blue. moon. every day you never know what you 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 weak on my hand try to get it by any means

necessary. this place is so for you to go. any way of saying. i knew you could. crack cocaine the deal. one of the number one drug. you got. close to 1st place is crystal meth. you know that's. taking away a lot of peace. right about. imperial courts jordan downs nickerson gardens avalon gardens and guns ak. the largest ones over 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 that's a that's a really large gang a couple 1000 members i'm sure imperial they've got some some pretty good names they've got i think funny side hill 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 gangs that are in there different subsets of the same game they're all creeps recruits and then 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 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 dollar and out of the day every day. as an average paranoid want to boil. you got to. thinking you know make a livin more than a. bring your own money back. shoulder to. shoulder easy i guess i get paid every day. i get paid every day every day i wake up come friday very.

uneasy in the large amount of. yeah i'll be a large amount anything is money to be made you can make money off of marijuana crack 1st of anyone but you if you got a large amount that's when you make enough money. i say. i don't have a. right . to move up the. supply i have making those dollars you know i'm set. you know how you get it me gotta get it or you know i'm sad so are people we don't know mama no daddy so no he

has had a screeching look for tall 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 be home to. me i know. i'm right. it's just a few minutes one. we gain may we represent this project live we always do it but at the same time is still some nose out there bigger than live i'm not oh no it's not playing no this model that i love is peace today i was a going to see some beer for all of us to grow as succeed off of people that cared about the way. we.

went to. every man they tried to get to be was not do the. job it's got. to. be they was printed was a day when. so much but then we really don't need that's what this whole walk down is teaching so many millions of people but most of their lives are all wasted on stuff that's unnecessary costly redundant and doesn't promote social good at all.

i don't trust medical authority at all ever and the reason for that is i had this horrible autoimmune disorder growing up and it turns out it was completely alleviated with very drastic dietary measures and i went to a number of doctors to discuss what happened to me and i was basically laughed at like diet has nothing to do with autoimmune disorders so my suggestion to people who have health issues they can't figure out if they're going to see a medical professional and they've been going for 10 years and they're still in the same place they should probably take it upon themselves to start testing things out testing out diet testing out exercise and try and figure out things on their own.

moved up to the big time they mailed me more roamers. and it's. only for the surveillance photos we got it was the. growth. 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 it 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 the 65 riots of 92 riots left a huge scar in this community they left a scar in this community that has caused the 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 on 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. that i was going to. have one good look at me and you're like oh you don't let. you know it really know that here you medalling can see you want to lie in state hustling you know saying stay hustling real before felon bro was ours really all

around no rather than this day and one day where i know i'm not going to you just like i'm not going to change it i'll believe you and now say i'll be here with nobody to tell you i'm even by being you you'll be in a failing army you know santa feel like you can't make it you know saying there's a way you can make it all me programs you would get into how many you can get you a job or a legitimate job homie and at the worry about all that man but the good the people got to help me get a job they got right now i've been looking for 5 months bro. i mean 5 months i'm tired i'm ready to give up so you've been. access to good grow. out here on the streets you get hanged in life or you know assault rifle that day for less than a $1000.00. you know do. you keep this on this

announcement not too hard but do it me and i had to go here work you know so because you. gave it down to you know you got to be calling my router you know no hammer no right. to going to move that's all i had to come to try to play the game go where you see the street oh i'm going to stay right here we call this out of not really gone south. and is really going to. look at it go they just got to. the cliff. i love me for any of them my life time but the passing of my brother that's what hit me the most. as they never took a big toll on the passing of my brother but i deal with them every day listening to read. and i lost all your friends before you out of a so it had heard me but. not to the extent that i lost my brother.

i mean and in a few years 'd later 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 yet. i am. 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 in the towards 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 bright or many people who haven't seen productive african-american males . doing all over the. back and we see. the we. my older brother was a gang member and my young brother was

a gang member so i understand what happens where gangs and often times when people are trying to find them so they'll search and search and then they'll find again. some of the gains they give them a sense of worth they feel they feel like they are someone. however we try to is really to let them know you don't need a game you have a sense of self-worth. with the lord. that you can have a different sense of self-worth and you don't have to depend on anyone and besides that you can get involved in something that's on us. you can be more. good news mason we started like this we will look up in the sky and surveying 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 but guess what it's no yellow tape but.

we will find out what happens if you fail me. the cameras are 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 the test you know into any of your camera is your hour is not going to lie 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 and. this was on the same who actually lives in imperial forces she was visiting there will be able to start before the security. issues when they're going. to get.

married it. would upset me. to get me to try to do this right you are letting me know what i did i was very very just been very trying to try my c.p.r. certified and they still refuse all the time. i could have been down here to see her you tried 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 body here is 115th street one of the busiest rock cocaine spots by far and ones but i would say even in the country. my experience nobody does more on cocaine than the bombing on the bloods and i mean the money is huge it's probably

$30.00 to $50000.00 if you can in sales just in this developed would be biased. their rival gang prevention crips in the same problem they do make money in sales narcotics in the motivation to stay within the gangs is in these alive in haiti is an ongoing feud between the great tree 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 they were murdered a very 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. 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 bunny hunters and that's how we was created we took that same piece. start calling ourselves the

bonnie hunt and it was a murder that took place of a body on a 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 feud that results from the one incident if he kills a bonding honor then the bonding on his get together and they need to retaliate and the more violent gang is the more respect it has the more violent a gang is the more successful they are the more 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 run the streets. of. the. world.

and we're going to fulfill the repeated promises oh probably to the people you know we've all bots you to. be. pretty rough. now you want to 1st correct that. you know.

for. 5 the. coming coming coming. so right now we're driving through both neighborhoods and you can see time and distance from each gang. so this is jordan. this is the territory claimed by the green street crips during war time bonnie hunt is no less likely to come in here because this is one way in an art and one way out so once you come in and do a shooting you're trapped in their neighborhood and they can return fire so it's not the safest way to to avenge a shooting so often they'll go on the outskirts of the neighborhood hoping to get a great street kripke that's

a lot of times when innocent people get shot. so in the next couple of days someone from this development most likely will go over towards nickerson like they have the last couple of days and commit a shooting and vice versa so all these neighborhoods now are in play. for him. several months ago. a gentleman with the moniker of menace from 15 hero was caught inside the gang territory of the village voice a couple of the village boys. went outside jumped on menace beat him down and stuck to mr ashby you. and. they took the trash here and brought him back behind another house and tortured him they sodomized him they sliced him up with a machete and when they sliced him up they put in the end his chest the village voice. and then they continued to torture him.