Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 265: Author Jill Leovy Discusses Ghettoside

Everyday Injustice

In 2015, Jill Leovy wrote a book: Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America.” “Ghettoside,” a blend of street reporting and scholarship, introduced and elaborated the idea that high-crime communities are simultaneously under-policed and over-policed. It further broke ground by locating the causes of urban violence in problems of law, not in family structure, culture, psychological differences or other familiar scapegoats. “ Listen as Jill Leovy talks about her book nearly a decade later, talks about crime reporting and the problems of policing urban violence.