# Ghettoside

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- Book: [Ghettoside](https://www.bookquiver.com/jill-leovy/ghettoside) ([Ghettoside.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jill-leovy/ghettoside.md))
- Authors: [Jill Leovy](https://www.bookquiver.com/jill-leovy)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 13 h 25 min
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- ISBN: 978-14-7352-308-1
- Published: 2015-03-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 13 h 25 min

## Description

Why would you kill your neighbour? Based on the best part of a decade embedded with the homicide units of the LAPD, this groundbreaking work of reportage takes us onto the streets, inside the homes and into the lives of a community wracked by a homicide epidemic. Through the gripping story of one particular murder – of an eighteen-year-old boy named Bryant Tennelle, gunned down one evening in spring for no apparent reason – and of its investigation by a brilliant, ferociously driven detective – a blond, surfer-turned-cop named John Skaggs – it reveals the true origins of such violence, explodes the myths surrounding policing and race and shows that the only way to reverse the cycle of violence is with justice.