We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.
For the past six years, it's provided food, clothing, hair and make-up services on skid row, an area of Los Angeles, California that has one of America's highest concentrations of homeless people.
One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town, and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body.
When he arrived, he spent weeks sleeping on a walkway in a poor neighborhood. Now, he seeks help from refugee agencies to find work in order to survive.
A violent, stylish epic of inner-city black youth, it made the 24-year-old the youngest person and first African-American to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar.
For this reason, the police chief regularly changes policemen's assignments so that they can escape from the tension and danger of patrols in the ghetto.
Police in South Africa have used water cannon and stun grenades to disperse rock-throwing protesters after an election rally in a shantytown near Johannesburg turned violent.