Skipp Townsend
Clifford Thomas Townsend, known as Skipp Townsend, is an American gang expert and former documented Bloods gang member for over 27 years from Los Angeles, California. Townsend is known for his role in several documentaries and movies: How to Make Money Selling Drugs,[1] The '80s: The Decade That Made Us,[2] Crips and Bloods: Made in America, ESPN's Series 30 for 30,[3] and Gangland episode: "One Blood".[4] He also assisted the casting department in two episodes of T.I.'s Road to Redemption.[5]
Townsend is co-founder and executive director of 2nd Call, a gang intervention non-profit,[6] and board member of the Southern California Cease Fire Committee.[7] Townsend is often interviewed as a pragmatic expert regarding police-public relations and as an "interventionist" regarding community conflicts.[8][9]
References
- ↑ IMDb: How to Make Money Selling Drugs (26 December 2013 (UK))
- ↑ IMDb: The '80s: The Decade That Made Us (TV Mini-Series (2013– )), himself as former crack dealer
- ↑ IMDb: 30 for 30 (TV Series (2009–2016)), (1 episode, 2010)
- ↑ IMDb: Gangland (TV Series (2007– )), (1 episode, 2008)
- ↑ IMDb: T.I.'s Road to Redemption (TV Series (2009– ))
- ↑ Deluca, Matthew (28 Apr 2012), L.A. Riots Anniversary: Two Gang Members Remember, New York, NY: The Daily Beast, retrieved 27 Nov 2016,
Twenty years after the riots, Skipp Townsend tries to keep young South Central men out of the clutches of gangs as executive director of 2nd Call, a nonprofit intervention group.
- ↑ Gillie, Nick (18 Sep 2013), Cease Fire Interview: Skipp Townsend, The Huffington Post, retrieved 27 Nov 2016,
Founder and Executive Director of 2nd Call and an Executive Board Member of the Southern California Cease Fire Committee.
- ↑ Brunhuber, Kim (7 Aug 2015), L.A. gangs using social media to terrorize communities, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 27 Nov 2016
- ↑ Lee, Elizabeth (10 Aug 2016), L.A. Police, Blacks Say More Community Policing Needed, Voice of America, retrieved 27 Nov 2016