Los Angeles ghetto life — thrashed, twisted and black — is not a world that most Americans care to visit. Black Angelinos can be — and for a period in the 1980s and early 1990s, were — murdered for a trifle. The slightest act of ‘disrespect’ may call for a tit-for-tat killing, where an entire family is rubbed out to avenge a perceived affront.
Ian Thomson
Life in the LA ghetto was nasty, brutish and short — until one brave detective took on the gangs
Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside, embedded herself for two years with the only effective police section on LA’s killing streets
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