![]() ![]() Leovy, a Los Angeles Times reporter, began her journey through ghettoside in 2001 when the newspaper assigned her to the police beat. ![]() It was both a place and a predicament, and gave a name to that otherworldly seclusion that all the violent black pockets of the county had in common.” “The term captured the situation nicely,” Leovy writes, “mixing geography and status with the hustler’s poetic precision and perverse conceit. The book’s title, “Ghettoside,” is a word picked up by a police officer from a gang member who uses it to describe his South Los Angeles neighborhood. With skilled, determined reporting and elegant writing, she tells the stories of several victims, their families, their killers and the unappreciated police detectives trying to solve the crimes. In a powerful new book, “Ghettoside: a True Story of Murder in America,” reporter Jill Leovy courageously delves into a subject that progressive people tend to avoid: black-on-black homicide. ![]()
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