Jill Leovy's blog The Homicide Report at the L.A. Times gets the feature treatment at Kevin Sites' "People of the Web" on Yahoo. "The only thing you have to do to qualify is be dead," Leovy says early in the clip, a blunt acknowledgement of the clear and up-front nature of her work: document every homicide in Los Angeles County for a year.
Yet watching this, you can sense emotions are inescapably part of the equation. One of the latest killings: Julio Lizano, 22, killed Sunday outside the Brazil smoke shop at Sunset and Alvarado in Echo Park, my now-former hood.