Ghettoside

The central theme of this book needs to be shouted from the rooftops: If murders in south central LA were all investigated with the vigor that murders elsewhere in LA are, there would be fewer black men murdering black men. Leovy doesn't discount other reasons for so-called “black-on-black” crime, but she's focused on the above reason.

It's too bad that this book is relatively disjointed in making its case–it reads like a bunch of newspaper articles put together, which isn't bad on the face of it, but I would have rather had more coherent analysis of the central theme.

Still, it's worth reading: The real people involved investigating and being the victims of homicides in south central LA is heartrendingly fascinating.