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Jill Leovy is an American journalist and reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She has become known for the 'Homicide Report', which has publicly detailed all murders in Los Angeles county since 2007.

Carer

Leovy started working as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times in 2000.

In 2007, she created the Homicide Report, a blog run by the LA Times, in which she detailed all murders in Los Angeles county during that year. This was "to balance crime coverage in the Los Angeles Times, where both tradition and the constraints of print space meant the focus of homicide reporting was on high-profile cases". In 2010, the 'Homicide Report' became a searchable database with interactive maps, and as of 2015, the Homicide Report continues to serve the community.

In January 2015, after 9 years of work on African-Americans and murder, Leovy's first book was published: "Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America". The New York Times Book Review wrote that her focus is not on misconduct of police officers, but their leaders. The LA Times Jacket Copy wrote, that Leovy made a strong case for more policing through her account of a homicide detective's investigation into one 2007 L.A. murder. ABC News wrote the book tells of gang-related homicides in black neighborhoods.

Personal life

Leovy lives with her family in Los Angeles.

Bibliography

• Jill Leovoy (27 January 2015). Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America. Spiegel & Grau. p. 384. ISBN 0385529988. reasons for homicides and ways it can be addressed. format:account of a homicide detective's investigation of a 2007 killing

Resources

• Jill Leovy (14 December 2006). "Don't believe the hype about murder". Salon. Salon Media Group. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  • L used WISQARS, a database of the Centers for Disease Control, described overall rate decline with distinct peaks in every decade
• Joe Donnelly (May 14, 2008). "Jill Leovy". LA Weekly. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  • traversed the county’s 4,000 square miles, 89 municipalities and mind-boggling array of police departments and bureaucracies. To use the word gang as a sweeping noun, that can be in and of itself a motivator is sloppy. We don’t know what we’re talking about.” "Where you find high homicide [rates] anywhere in the world, it looks the same." remedy" shift focus to victims and victimization.

• Sudhir Venkatesh (21 January 2015). "Review 'Ghettoside' focuses on one L.A. murder to make case for more policing". Jacket Copy. LA Times. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  • 'Ghettoside' is a penetrating look at the Los Angeles Police Department, part 1 LAPD, part 2 case.part reportage and part sociology
• Jennifer Gonnerman (21 January 2015). "Jill Leovy's 'Ghettoside'". NY Times Sunday Book Review. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  • focus is not on misconduct of police officers, but leaders. L is revealing how the priorities of a police department can reduce the odds that the murders of young black men are solved. L claims, "Los Angeles Police Department — and the criminal justice system nationally — has not placed a high enough priority on solving these murders." Leovy is quoted :“Where the criminal justice system fails to respond vigorously to violent injury and death, homicide becomes endemic.”
• Thomas Chatterton Williams (January 22, 2015). "'Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America,' by Jill Leovy". San Francisco Chronicle. SFgate.com.
• Jill Leovy (23 January 2015). "The Underpolicing of Black America". WSJ.
• NPR staff (24 January 2015). "Why A Black Man's Murder Often Goes Unpunished In Los Angeles". Weekend Edition. NPR.6 minutes 37 sec
• "'Ghettoside' Explores Why Murders Are Invisible In Los Angeles" (Interview). NPR Fresh Air. NPR. 26 January 2015.
  • "epidemic of unsolved murders in African-American communities"
• J.L. Harkavy (Jan 26, 2015). "Book Tells of Gang-Related Homicides in Black Neighborhoods". ABC news. Associated Press.</ref>
  • "killings of unarmed black men by police in Missouri and New York have dominated recent headlines", "relations between police and the black community perhaps more strained than ever", but Black-on Black crimes "get barely a footnote" , "homicide epidemic", killings not newsworthy "reflected in the label that used to be given them by members of the Los Angeles Police Department: "NHI — No Human Involved."", LA "murder rate has gone down dramatically as a result of factors that include migration of many black residents to the exurbs and the high number of black men in prison", "the best means of dealing with the still disproportionately high number of black-on-black murders would be to have all detectives approach such cases with [...] vigor and determination in arresting and helping to convict",\

See also

• Race and crime in the United States already huge biblio
• Race and inequality in the United States
• Race and the War on Drugs
• Race in the United States criminal justice system NPOV war
• Racial profiling in the United States

Further reading

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