The Homicide Report

The Homicide Report is an experiment by the LA Times to act as a counterbalance to the glamourous and sensational true crime coverage in the tabloids and TV. The FBI promulgated the out-of-control spectre of black on white (female) crime even after crime levels fell off dramatically in the 1990s. (Remember FBI estimations of 200 serial killers roaming America?).

TV shows reinforce this stereotype as do the multi-million selling True Crime books which ignore the reality that the majority of crime across America is perpetrated by young urban poor Hispanic and Black males on young urban poor Hispanic and Black males.

The Homicide Report addresses this imbalance in perception and manufactured fear by outlining each death in LA with the unadorned details that are so compelling and gruesome as you scan through them.