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Ghettoside

By: Jill Leovy
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
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Why would you kill your neighbour? Based on the best part of a decade embedded with the homicide units of the LAPD, this groundbreaking work of reportage takes us onto the streets, inside the homes, and into the lives of a community wracked by a homicide epidemic.

Through the gripping story of one particular murder of an 18-year-old boy named Bryant Tennelle, gunned down one evening in spring for no apparent reason, and of its investigation by a brilliant, ferociously driven detective - a blond surfer turned cop named John Skaggs - it reveals the true origins of such violence, explodes the myths surrounding policing and race and shows that the only way to reverse the cycle of violence is with justice.

©2014 Jill Leovoy (P)2015 Random House Audiobooks Murder True Crime Crime

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"The best crime journalism since Serial" ( Esquire)
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This book, along with Simon's 'Homicide'. Try to show the reality of a different world. The detectives of which, underfunded, overworked, within a system that seems broken, are the last chance at justice.

Harrowing and heartbreaking.

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