I heard Jill Leovy on NPR’s Fresh Air back in January talking about this book and the newspaper blog that started it, The Homicide Report, and was intrigued. The book does not disappoint. Leovy, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, developed this text after years of reporting on homicides in LA and actually “embedding” herself at the LAPD’s Seventy-Seventh Street division and it attempts as she puts it in the author’s note, “to penetrate the mystery of disproportionate black homicide”(323). She uses the murder […]