Ross Kemp on Gangs

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Ross Kemp on Gangs is an award-winning documentary series shown on Sky One.

It features Ross Kemp as he travels around the world talking to gang members and delving into their world.

[edit] Season 1

Episode 1 - London

Kemp investigates gang life in London.

Episode 2 - New Zealand

New Zealand's Maori gang culture.

Episode 3 - Orange County

Kemp travels to Orange County, California to investigate two neo Nazi gangs.

Episode 4 - Rio de Janeiro

Examines the gangs of Brazils most famous city, includes how the police are seen as simply another gang to the 'conventional' gangsters.

[edit] Season 2

Episode 1 - El Salvador

Ross travels to El Salvador to meet the "most dangerous gang in the world", MS13 (Mara Salvatrucha). In a country with a population smaller than London, there are over 800 murders a year, which is unsurprising when MS13 manages to boast over 100,000 members.

Episode 2 - Cape Town

Meeting a gang operating in a high security Cape Town prison.

Episode 3 - St Louis

Visiting St Louis, one of the most violent US cities.

Episode 4 - Moscow

The actor looks at brutal neo-Nazi skinheads in Moscow.

[edit] Special

Lethal Attraction: Why Americans Love Guns

Ross Kemp investigates the obsession with firearms in the United States.