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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in AmericaNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Economist • The Globe and Mail • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of black Americans murdered that year. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the scores of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case is assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shift. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential, but mostly ignored, American murder—a “ghettoside” killing, one young black man slaying another—and a brilliant and driven cadre of detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of why murder happens in our cities—and how the epidemic of killings might yet be stopped. Praise for Ghettoside“A serious and kaleidoscopic achievement . . . [Jill Leovy is] a crisp writer with a crisp mind and the ability to boil entire skies of information into hard journalistic rain.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Masterful . . . gritty reporting that matches the police work behind it.”—Los Angeles Times“Moving and engrossing.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Penetrating and heartbreaking . . . Ghettoside points out how relatively little America has cared even as recently as the last decade about the value of young black men’s lives.”—USA Today“Functions both as a snappy police procedural and—more significantly—as a searing indictment of legal neglect . . . Leovy’s powerful testimony demands respectful attention.”—The Boston Globe

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No point burying the lede: "Ghettoside" knocked me out. The book was so meticulously researched, the details so exacting (yet never extraneous), they revealed the author's myriad gifts of storytelling. There are only a few nonfiction books each year as comprehensive as "Ghettoside." Often I found myself wondering, "How does the author know all this?" I don't think I'm giving anything away, but in the afterward Leovy answers my question, explaining her reporting strategy, which was to embed with police precincts, go out on calls, and interview participants over a multi-year period. I would think the true challenge with this type of book is to wrestle the huge amount of source material into a coherent narrative, which Leovy handles masterfully. To summarize, the author focuses on homicide in the South Central part of L.A. during a period when it was much more prevalent (1990s) than it is today. She describes murders in an excruciating way, never pulling punches. But "Ghettoside" isn't simply a catalog of murders. It focuses on the efforts of the homicide detectives to solve these crimes. Everyone is described in a way that keeps him or her from becoming a stereotype. We learn that the investigators are dedicated and self-sacrificing. Some of their biggest challenges are a lack of support from the L.A. Police Department and a lack of cooperation from witnesses to the crimes, who very understandably fear for their own lives for being "snitches." One of the detectives' own children is murdered, victim of a gang dispute, and the resulting investigation and trial make for riveting, if gut-wrenching, reading. What I appreciated so much about "Ghettoside" is that Leovy gave a quick bit of historical context at the beginning and then launched into the narrative, never editorializing. At the very end of the book she gives her opinions about what fueled the crime, and her conclusions are as refreshingly well thought-out as the rest of the book. The author doesn't lean on the pat answers of gangs and drugs. While these elements contribute to the violence, Leovy gives the reader a much more nuanced explanation, showing how ethnically similar groups living in close quarters throughout the world, with limited access to financial mobility, have resorted to similar types of violence. Essentially they take the law into their own hands to settle disputes. Leovy turned all of my preconceptions about South Central, mainly based on Hollywood movies, on their head. She gives so much life to the survivors, the witnesses, and the detectives. They all have the same motives as the rest of us: to live in safety. It is only a small subset within a small subset that commits the homicides. Even within this subset of young black males are many who want to escape the life but don't know how. What was so appalling about the circumstances described in the book was how little media attention the deaths received but also how little help the detectives received when they were just trying to do their job. I'm a white guy from the Midwest with no connection to murder in LA, but I devoured "Ghettoside" and would recommend it to anyone with an interest in true crime or life in America today.

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