
Ross Kemp on Gangs: Jamaica
Ross Kemp travels to Kingston, Jamaica, a country he says has the highest murder rate in the world for a nation not officially at war. He walks the most violent neighborhoods of the capital, sitting down with gang members who control entire blocks and speak openly about turf, guns, and the killings that keep the body count climbing. Police officers and residents describe daily life under the threat of gang violence, from checkpoints to funerals, while Kemp presses his subjects on where the guns come from and why the killing rarely stops. The film moves between armed men explaining their code and ordinary Jamaicans caught between gangs and an overstretched police force. As in the rest of the series, Kemp puts himself directly in the room with the people he is reporting on rather than narrating from a distance, and the danger of that access is part of what the film is showing you.