City of God – Documentary – News from a Personal War – Notes
Institutional, Cultural and Social issues
Organised Gangs
More trust in gangs than cops
Drugs – Responsible for homicides
1 Person dies every 30 mins
100,000 people – drug traffickers
Drug dealer knows he could have a straight job
Talking about police being scared
Started with old people selling drugs
Cocaine – Considered a rich mans drug
Medicine costs 3 times as much money as people have
Man spoke about how he had been arrested and escaped many times.
Dealers get paid double what normal workers get paid in a month, in a week.
Likes the life of selling drugs
Most of people caught dealing, are young and from slums
Police would take valuable items under the pretence that they were stolen
Both sides believe they are doing the right thing
Dealers are starting to get more sophisticated equipment
Dealers have night vision, cops do not
Arrest or Execute
Biggest ratio of poor to rich
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