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Book review: “Ghettoside” by Jill Leovy

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Book review: “Ghettoside” by Jill Leovy

Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy has spent more than a decade in her city’s most dangerous black neighborhoods, with killers who are more scared and embarrassed than they are brutal; mothers who do everything they can but still lose their kids to the streets anyway; neighborhoods wracked by violence, where nearly everybody is a good person trying to do right; dead and wounded who are no more drug dealers and gang members than they are saints; adolescent hookers with more courage than most cops; cops who see their responsibility to protect the neighborhood as a holy mission. She brings them all to life with grace and artistry, and controlled — but bone-deep — outrage in her new book, “Ghettoside.”Read full article >>