Jill Leovy is stepping down from The Homicide Report, the Los Angeles Times‘ blog that aims to catalogue every homicide in L.A. County. As you might imagine, she has a pretty singular perspective on the reality of all that carnage.
In 1990, New York City tallied 2,245 murders. That number was the prism through which David Dinkins‘s mayoralty was viewed and the foundation on which Rudolph Giuliani based his bid for mayor (and a big part of his bid for the presidency). The boss gets all the blame in bad times and all the credit Read More
