![]() In some ways, Leovy has completed the book that Simon began. But Ghettoside builds more forcefully to its conclusions, while Homicide tends to leave readers to draw their own. Both books tell rich and lively stories with vivid protagonists fighting enormous pain. ![]() ![]() Like Leovy, Simon wrote his opus after years reporting on his city’s homicide detectives for the local paper. ![]() If there are few crimes more serious than murder, and black and brown people can be murdered with few consequences for their killers, they will be killed more often, and their unavenged deaths will rot any chance of faith in their would-be protectors.Īnyone who read David Simon’s Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (or, yes, watched the TV shows it inspired) will recognize Leovy’s book as a sort of sequel. ![]() That argument is laid out very clearly from the get-go, and its airtight logic is given weight and texture by the tragic stories to which Leovy and her protagonists bear witness. Jill Leovy’s masterful volume, filled with hard-won insights from her years as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is billed as a book about homicide, but the implications of Leovy’s argument reach much further. ![]()
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