SO BLACK ON BLACK KILLINGS GETS ONLY THE HONORARY NO MENTION WHEN IT COMES TO THE MSM REPORTING AS POLICE OFFICERS SHOOTING OF BLACK ASSAILANTS GETS FRONT PAGE NEWS–WHILST THE GHETTOS GET AWAY WITH MURDER AS CASES ARE NOT DEEMED HIGH PRIORITY FROM THE LIKES OF THE DOJ ERIC HOLDER NOR THE DEMOCRATS CARPET BAGGERS SINCE NOTHING TO BE GAINED FROM SENSATIONALIZING KILLINGS OF BLACKS BY BLACK GANGS AS LA WATTS BOOK REVEAL HOMICIDES IN US GHETTOS GOES UNDER COVER - CALLED GHETTOSIDE BY JILL LEOVY

The killings of unarmed black men by police in Missouri and New York have dominated recent headlines, but the slayings of black males by other blacks in the nation’s most violent ghettos still get barely a footnote.
Americans have long been complacent about these anonymous murders, many of them gang-related, most of which go unsolved. The notion that such killings are not newsworthy is reflected in the label that used to be given them by members of the Los Angeles Police Department: “NHI ― No Human Involved.”
Thankfully, that has changed, according to Jill Leovy’s riveting account of a relentless homicide detective’s investigation of a senseless 2007 killing in Watts in which a gentle and good-natured 18-year-old was gunned down after being mistaken for a target in a gang rivalry.
“Ghettoside,” a term picked up by police from a Watts gang member to describe his neighborhood, embraces both the locale of the violence and the culture and mindset that impedes police from bringing killers to justice. Terrified witnesses who cooperate with investigators are labeled as snitches and often are subject to intimidation and fear for their lives.
The hero of “Ghettoside,” veteran detective John Skaggs, cut his teeth during “the Big Years” of the early 1990s, when the number of killings was far higher than it is today. His people skills, ability to detect lies and knowledge of the folkways of the ghetto serve him well as he works to nab the killer of Bryant Tennelle.
The way solid police work cracks a case that at first seemed insolvable reads like a thrilling police procedural set in a neighborhood fraught with danger. The most gripping episodes come as Skaggs manages to persuade the girlfriend of one of the killers to testify against him and then keeps her safe and sober in the face of death threats.
An award-winning reporter and editor with the Los Angeles Times, Leovy in 2007 created an innovative blog that covered all of the city’s 845 murders that year. Most of the killings took place in ghetto neighborhoods and most of the victims were young black men.

 

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