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21 May 2015

Ghettoside is a bold, humane study of Los Angeles’ black homicide epidemic

Ryan Gattis reviews two books on the Los Angeles police – and finds a city plagued by a national problem.

By Ryan Gattis

(Photo By Jesús Muñoz, flat in the LA River bed, features in James Ellroy's LAPD '53. Photo: © 2015 LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM)

Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic
Jill Leovy
Bodley Head, 366pp, £16.99

LAPD ’53
James Ellroy and Los Angeles Police Museum
Abrams Image, 208pp, £15.99

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