When shooting starts this spring for the new movie version of Miami Vice, due to reach cinemas next summer, it won't just be Crockett and Tubbs that will be sporting a new look.
Right in the middle of Independencia, a neighborhood so violent that children know how to take cover when shooting starts, is a sunlit community center, opened a few months ago.
Public service announcements were increased, including a two-minute drama urging children not to climb trees when shooting starts, an explanation of what unexploded objects look like, and a compilation of community voices called People for Peace.
In order to hit those targets, production schedules have little room for deviation; finished scripts often lag behind the key special-effects sequences, which are devised early so mockups around which actors can be directed are ready when shooting starts.
When the cars stopped that's when the shooting started".
CALCP representatives who were present when the violence began say they contacted the verification mission when the shooting started.
When the shooting started, we started running.
