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

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images 
issue 21 March 2015
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  • Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic

    Jill Leovy

    Bodley Head, pp. 266

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