![]() We figured out that she had done so starting the year I retired, so we hadn’t. Leovy asked if we had ever met, stating that she used to attend Sheriff’s Homicide Wednesday meetings. I won’t give more of the book away, but I can tell you that the story will keep you up late and that you’ll close the back cover sooner than you had hoped, and perhaps with a heaviness that you hadn’t expected. When the son of an LAPD officer is killed, Skaggs gets the case. She focuses primarily on the work of Detective John Skaggs, a man of exceptional talent who is committed to working in the toughest of neighborhoods and solving the murders that plague them, against all odds. To write the book, Leovy embedded herself with LAPD’s South Bureau Homicide. It is provocative, brutally honest, a story I believe should be read by every cop. It is the story of homicide in South Los Angeles, more specifically the seemingly endless epidemic of blacks murdering blacks. ![]() I just finished reading New York Times Bestseller Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, by former Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy. ![]()
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