Louis is heading into the dark underbelly of the US once again.
Louis Theroux may have moved on from making light-hearted and quirky documentaries, but he’s never lost his charm and impact when looking at darker subjects such as racial tensions, mental health and drug epidemics.
Really, you could do a lot worse than spending a night in watching his Dark States series, which is great news since RTÉ2 is showing his documentary, Dark States – Murder in Milwaukee at 9.30pm tonight.
Louis will be venturing into Milwaukee, a city in the state of Wisconsin mired by ferocious poverty, racial tensions and high rates of gun crime and homicide.
Spending time with the city’s police department as they patrol District 5, which is home to some of the most dangerous streets in the US, with a homicide rate twelve times above the national average, he follows the homicide department as they investigate one such killing.
Arriving in the city at a time when relations between the African-American community and police have soured, he attempts to understand the climate by spending time with a family who lost a member to gun crime, a reformed criminal turned social activist and communities as a whole, which lack almost all faith in the city authorities.
Clip via BBC
Louis Theroux’s Dark States – Murder in Milwaukee is on RTÉ2 at 9.30pm tonight.
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