Jill leovy s ghettoside in her timely new book, jill leovy examines one of the most disturbing facts about life in america. An interview with author jill leovy i just finished reading new york times bestseller ghettoside. A true story of murder in america kindle edition by. Jill leovy is a respected journalist and her many interviews on radio were intelligent and interesting. Ghettoside makes the case for more policing in poor areas. A true story of murder in america paperback october 27, 2015. She spent several chapters glorifying the 2 white investigators who sound truly remarkable but dont really advance our understanding of the larger problem. It is not often that i pick up a work of nonfiction and picture the movie unfolding before my eyes. Ghettoside author jill leovy on what we have learned since. Ghettoside, if theres any justice, will be the most important book about urban violence in a generation. And in those two decades, for one of which she was crime correspondent, she witnessed not only the homicide epidemic sweeping through las south, but also discovered that these crimes were poorly documented, turned into faceless statistics and in part, strategically swept under the rug.
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