Ghettoside: An Interview with Author Jill Leovy

[image error]I just finished reading New York Times Bestseller Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, by former Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy. It is the story of homicide in South Los Angeles, more specifically the seemingly endless epidemic of blacks murdering blacks. It is provocative, brutally honest, a story I believe should be read by every cop.

To write the book, Leovy embedded herself with LAPD’s South Bureau Homicide. She focuses primarily on the work of Detective John Skaggs, a ma...