Steve Hoggard
	Hoggard Films - Writer/Director

Recently, a gang expert has written a paper equating gang banging and gang life with addiction… Many experts now seem to align with this point of view… And although I’m no expert myself, the corollary seems accurate to me. If gang banging is like an addiction, then the treatments and intervention methods now being brought to bear deserve intense scrutiny.

OG’s – ‘original gangsters’ -- play a huge role in the gang dynamic. These are the older guys: the gang leaders, who provide the guns, plan out the crimes, manage the drug sales and so on. To make their gangs strong, they need a constant flow of new members: new little homies.

Gangs are only as strong as their number. Violence, arrests, old guys getting out, and so on constantly deplete their ranks.

OGs are in constant need of ‘fresh meat’ – little homies. And in places like S. Central and Compton where so many boys have what Father Stan calls “the father wound”: where dads are gone, are never there, are in prison, dead, etc. – there are many, many boys eager to find a father figure and a surrogate family… That family is gang life. And the father figures are the gang leaders or OGs who manipulate them.

This is a theme that boy bangers repeat again and again, and one that gang intervention experts, like Father Stan, knows all too well.

Early on, we knew we’d want to get ‘inside’ the mind and life of one such OG – to serve as a counterweight to our teen gang bangers and provide a glimpse into what makes these ‘surrogate’ and terribly manipulative ‘Big Homies’ / OGs tick.

You'll get to know Poo, (second from the left), as his story is told during Inside LA Gang War

Poo’s been shot multiple times, done over 5 years in prison, been arrested more than 20 times, is an apparently loving father and son, and has admittedly shot his fair share of people…