Essay On Gangs And Police

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Gangs, Guns and the Police. ‘Gangs, Guns and Police’ a documentary that aired in 2016 on BBC’s paranormal show, features around the murder of 35-year-old Lee Erdmann, who was shot publicly in a restaurant and the gang culture in Salford, England. The documentary discusses how it is affecting the local community and creating a ‘Fear Factor’ amongst people to help the police. The purpose of the documentary is to get eyewitnesses or anyone in Salford to start trusting the police in their local area and to help stop the gang culture providing a message stating that the locals should help the police, and their fellow locals, the documentary is targeted at locals all around the world with the same problems that Salford has, that are 16 or older. In the documentary many techniques are used to get the audience to feel a specific way, to see the point of view of different people, and most importantly, techniques are used to send a message to the audience. Through all the techniques used in the documentary, there are a specific few that are particularly used for the message, which are interviews, which provide insights and different perspectives on the case of Lee Erdmann and Paul Massey’s death, as well as the brutal violence of gangs out on the streets. As well as interviews, techniques such as …show more content…

And to get them to think about everything going on in Salford, and for them to look at it all through everyone’s different views on it. The documentary uses all of these techniques effectively and greatly to get their message through to the viewers, and using all of the techniques they are able to get people not just in the local area to think about gangs, but also everyone around the world to think about their local community and what they can do to help it, and each

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