roody lafont is one of them. >> narrator: the police say roody is a violent gangster who has returnedto his old ways. >> narrator: even before the earthquake, police had few of the photographic and fingerprint records that forces in other countries rely on. >> narrator: an escaped gangster is willing to lead the police to a gang hideout if his sentence is reduced. >> narrator: at the heart of almost every police operation is an informer whose motives are often suspect. from inside the vehicle, the informer begins pointing out people to arrest. the main target, an escaped prisoner named alfred, has vanished. his sister is taken for questioning. >> narrator: when an informer can't be found, the police seal off entire neighborhoods and arrest anyone who appears suspicious. >> narrator: the men arrested in the sweep were taken to a police station for screening. >> narrator: watching from the chief's office are three men from the neighborhood. they've been told to look for unfamiliar faces. >> the pointing out of a individual by a community does not mean that then the individual community

the sacred medicine men can query or intercede with lafontant and interpret the instructions received and visions or dreams thereby helping men to control the power given to them by the animal or natural world. these powers reside not only in the world of the spirit that in themselves. the speed of the hawk for example resides in the body of a hawk. the power of an eagle and the eagles talon, the veracity of the bear tooth or cloth with its pickling call resides in the horn or the ivory tooth or the dew clause of the elk. these physical things properly prepared share their inherent power with the man who carries them on his person or ties them to the shield or lands. it is the same with the representation of things, the image of a dragonfly gives a man some element or aspects of the quickness of a dragonfly. the zigzag lightning streaked down the leg of a horse is at the trampling power of thunder making it fearful to enemies, a drawing of a bear or ebenefits claw can convey the actual power and ferocity of the bear. he prepared for him a friend, the medicine man whose name in lakota