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Rival gang members work together to fight crime in a new and risky model of peacemaking.
After suspending production to evaluate safety concerns, filmmakers relaunch gang intervention documentary A VIOLENCE DISRUPTED documenting a new type of community policing – one where the gang members themselves become the crime-fighters. To do this, they journey into the core of the LA gang world where killing is commonplace. Here they find rival gang members working together, and being trained by the city, in this new and risky model of peacemaking. It is messy, but it’s working: LA times reports Monday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says, “L.A. (Now) has the lowest violent crime per capita of any big city.”
Director/Producer: Nikki Hevesy
Co-Producer: Anne Marie Gillen
Executive Producer: Derrick Warfel
Cinematographer: James O’Keffee
Editor: Art Kellner
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