Displaying 1 of 1 2016 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: The black jacket / a film by Ryan Simon ; Virgil Films, Engine7Media, West North, and Strike Anywhere present ; director, Ryan Simon ; producers, Joel Goulder, Jeremy Goulder, Colin Best, Ryan Simon. Edition: Widescreen. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Virgil Films, [2016] ©2016 Description: 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical DVD NTSC video file DVD video region 1 Summary: The documentary follows the efforts of former gang members who are now committed to stopping the violence that they once enacted themselves. A former Black Panther leads a sixteen-week course full of gang members and community outreach workers through a curriculum recently adopted by the Los Angeles City Council. The mission: Peace. The method: Changing the violent mindsets of influential gang member's one person at a time. The result: Hundreds fewer murders per year. Target Audience Note: MPAA rating: Not rated. Subjects: Bashear, Aquil. Professional Community Intervention Training Institute. Gangs -- California -- Los Angeles. Gang prevention -- California -- Los Angeles. Violent crimes -- California -- Los Angeles -- Prevention. Crime prevention -- California -- Los Angeles. Violence -- California -- Los Angeles -- Prevention. Ex-gang members -- California -- Los Angeles. Political participation. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions. Genre: Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Other Author: Simon, Ryan, film director, film producer. Goulder, Jeremy, film producer. Goulder, Joel, film producer. Best, Colin, film producer. Bashear, Aquil, commentator, on-screen participant. Virgil Films, presenter, publisher. Engine 7 Films, presenter. West North (Firm), presenter. Strike Anywhere (Firm), presenter. Other Title: Black jacket : a hard-core plan to transform South Central Notes: Subtitle on container: A hard-core plan to transform South Central. Widescreen. Cinematographer, James Laxton ; editor, John Dilley. Featuring Aquil Bashear. DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation; stereo. Closed-captioned. ISBN: 0829567119228 Publisher Number: 671192 Other Number: 951543701 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 621522 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: DVD 364.15 Black ja Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1