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[quote=Anonymous]Read the 2015 non-fiction book Ghettoside by LA Times reporter Jill Leovy.  It is about the difficulty of solving homicides in Los Angeles, but a lot of the same issues apply in DC.  She traces the history of justice (or lack thereof) for AA victims in the AA communities in the south--i.e., the law was there to bind but not to protect, which resulted in systems of retaliation, witness intimidation, and overall distrust and dysfunction.  Those paradigms were then exported to large cities in the US, where the newly arrived AA residents did not receive any better treatment from the justice systems in those locations than they had in the South.   It is a very sad, but fascinating read.  The book tracks the progress of a homicide detective trying to identify and bring to justice the killers of the teenage son of an AA fellow police officer.   Delivering justice to victims is a fundamental principle of the rule of law in society.  And when we fail to do it, societies fall apart and/or resort to vigilante justice.     [/quote]

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