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Jill Leovy's Ghettoside: A True Story Of Murder In America

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The city of Los Angeles is a huge. Population size 3.9 million. In this city there are so many murders, retaliation and crimes. Someone living in Los Angeles murder is an everyday thing. It happens so often that no one is surprised after hearing about it. The laws that the city enforces don’t do much because they are broken everyday. Jill Leovy, the author of Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, made it her mission to spread awareness about the crimes that are being ignored in Los Angeles everyday.
Leovy’s first attempt to spread awareness was the online crime website. This website was a method of Leovy’s to alert people about the crime in Los Angeles. The Homicide report website has a picture of the deceased, their age, a description

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