![]() It's called "Ghettoside: A True Story Of Murder In America." Leovy spent many years embedded with homicide detectives, and her book is an intimate look at murder investigations and the relationships between police and victims' relatives, witnesses and suspects. In 2007, she started a blog called "The Homicide Report" to document all the murders in Los Angeles County. Part of the problem, she believes, is that these murders are simply invisible to too many of us. Leovy's covered crime for the Los Angeles Times for more than a decade, and as you'll hear, she doesn't regard the problem simply as one of poor police work. ![]() Her new book focuses on the epidemic of unsolved murders in African-American neighborhoods in Los Angeles and the corrosive impact of unpunished crime in those communities. Our guest today, journalist Jill Leovy, argues that black communities suffer deeply from too little law enforcement, or at least law enforcement of a certain kind. ![]() ![]() The deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island have sparked debate about whether the police presence in African-American communities is too heavy-handed and often abusive. ![]()
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