Ian Thomson

Life in the LA ghetto was nasty, brutish and short — until one brave detective took on the gangs

Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside, embedded herself for two years with the only effective police section on LA’s killing streets

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  • Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic

    Jill Leovy

    Bodley Head, pp. 266

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