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The documentary about The Grimsleeper explored the life of Lonnie Franklin and how he raped and killed drug addicts and hookers. The documentary also explored where Lonnie lived, he lived in a ghetto part of the city where violence and drug abuse are very prevalent. The biggest sociological event in the film is the distrust between the people and police. The police department in charge of the murder cases where very secretive and did not give much information and for a while didn’t even think that there was a serial killer. They also did not trust any eye witnesses that came forward because most of the time they were drug addicts or currently doing some illegal practice. Another sociological problem seen in the film is discrimination, this is shown by …show more content…

As far as Lonnie goes he was the local mechanic that (sometimes) delt in stolen cars. Lonnie had a love for pictures he was part of a local photography club.By far the most incriminating aspect of his life was the fact that it was well known that he was perverted and would openly make women feel uncomfortable and took pictures of the women he was “with”. It is also mentioned in the film that Lonnie had a first wife that did not work and was a drug addict she took Lonnie’s money and would buy drugs with it. This is most likely where Lonnie got his hatred for druggies a hatred that would lead him to murder. The fact of the matter is that the murders happened in a poor part of town where a bunch of druggies and low-class citizens and the police did not think anything of the murders most likely because their are so many killers in the area that there is no way of getting them all. The lack of action by the police then makes the people of the area untrusting. The film does a great job describing and showing what the area that Lonnie lived in looked

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