article_snippet: British filmmaker Nick Broomfield said: 'People didn't know someone was hunting for People.'
article_snippet: Mr Broomfield said during the time when the crimes were committed, little attention was paid to the disappearance of around 200 women by the police or the media. '
article_snippet: I thought it was just incredible in the middle of LA which is one of the wealthiest cities in the world, within 15 minutes of the Hollywood sign over 200 women had disappeared in a 25 year period,' Mr Broomfield said.
article_snippet: Mr Broomfield told  the Sun: 'It was almost like a genocide happening and nobody was talking about It.'
article_snippet: In Mr Broomfield documentary Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Mr Broomfield claimed police didn't warn people there was a killer lurking in the neighbourhood or do anything to alert people living in nearby Hollywood because the victims were often seen as more of a 'nuisance.'
article_snippet: Mr Broomfield added: 'They were just seen as disposable people. '
article_snippet: Mr Broomfield said the proper name of the prostitute could not have been an 'accident' that 200 people disappeared or were murdered in the same small area in a 25 year period.  
article_snippet: Mr Broomfield said had the murders been taking place in somewhere like the wealthy district of Beverley Hills
article_snippet: Giving one comparison, Mr Broomfield said the disappearance of dozens of women was treated very differently from a case in 1988 where a gang had shot students in Westwood - causing the whole city to be shut down.
article_snippet: People didn't know someone was hunting for People.'