sentences:  Prevalent throughout the film is Sheriff's Deputy Fred Ross, a former factory worker whose current job now demands that he go around town carrying out record numbers of evictions on families unable to pay their rent.During all of this, Flint's crime rate skyrockets, with shootouts and murders becoming all too common.Crime becomes so prevalent that when the ABC News program "Nightline" tries to do a live story on the plant closings, someone steals the network's van (along with the cables), abruptly stopping the broadcast.