Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, (Paperback)

from ehousewright

I hope that this book will be on reading lists for ... well, everyone. Those who fund and oversee local police forces, those who need to be reminded that police are not always (but unfortunately are sometimes) quota driven, trigger happy or unfeeling, those who want to become police officers, and...

from Narshkite

I received this book through the Librarything Early Reviewers program at no cost in return for an objective review. This is the most important book I have read in a long time. It is a look at relationships between police and poor Black Angelenos, and between Black men is South Central. It looks a...

from Maya47Bob46

We are all thinking this January 2015 about relationship between the minority - in particular, black - communities and the police. Ghettoside by Los Angeles reporter, Jill Leovy, is a timely addition to the conversation. The homicide rate in Los Angeles, in Watts and in South Central in particula...

from satxreader

Great read. If you have any preconceived ideas about black-on-black homicides, gang culture, police brutality or harassment, you are almost guaranteed to have some of those ideas challenged in this book, and perhaps even changed. There's not much I can add to the previous reviews since I agree wi...

from gmmartz

This was extremely thought-provoking non-fiction that reads at times like a novel. On the micro level, it's about one detective (and his supporting cast) in LA who happens to care about solving homicides among the city's poor (mostly black) inhabitants and his work on several cases, the most prom...