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Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia
BBC Two, 9pm
Louis Theroux is the master of gentle irony and faux naivety, but there is precious little room for these talents in a war zone. In the first of two programmes about law enforcement in dangerous places, he joins the Philadelphia Police Department as they drive around the 24th District, which has one of the highest rates of violent crime and homicide in the US. The neighbourhood is awash with drugs and guns; there are low-level drug dealers on every street corner, and here a person can get shot just for looking at someone the wrong way. Nobody will ever talk to the police – that’s “snitching”.
With the sirens screaming, Louis Theroux looks anxious, shocked and out of place.
BBC Two, 9pm
Louis Theroux is the master of gentle irony and faux naivety, but there is precious little room for these talents in a war zone. In the first of two programmes about law enforcement in dangerous places, he joins the Philadelphia Police Department as they drive around the 24th District, which has one of the highest rates of violent crime and homicide in the US. The neighbourhood is awash with drugs and guns; there are low-level drug dealers on every street corner, and here a person can get shot just for looking at someone the wrong way. Nobody will ever talk to the police – that’s “snitching”.
With the sirens screaming, Louis Theroux looks anxious, shocked and out of place.