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Jill Leovy, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times in Los Angeles County, has blogged and reported on 845 deaths in just one year - and one county. All are compiled, not just the high profile cases. The Homicide Report is an LA Times a blog that covers not only the big murder stories, but the small ones as well. Leovy covers every single murder in LA County.
This list is compiled using information from the Los Angeles County Coroner, local law enforcement agencies, and the Los Angeles Times. The crime blog is designed to give attention to all of the homicides in the city. *** "Your basic mission as a journalist, you bear witness, you see things that are unseen," Leovy said while driving a CNN reporter through some of L.A.'s bloodiest neighborhoods. "It's sort of awful to think of people being murdered and nobody seeing it." The LA Times notes that the blog is a weekly listing of all homicide victims reported by the Los Angeles County coroner, combined with updates every few days from law enforcement agencies of new homicides not yet listed. Any human being who dies at the hand of another in Los Angeles County, and whose death is recorded by the coroner, is included in the report. *** They add, "Selective news coverage is a practical necessity for most news organizations operating in a county where nearly 1,100 people die from homicide yearly. The Los Angeles Times, for example, is limited by the number of pages it prints, and in a recent year, found room for stories on fewer than 10% of L.A. County homicides, according to an analysis by a Times researcher. Such selectivity ensures that the people and places most affected by homicides are least likely to be seen, while the safest people are inundated with information about crimes unlikely to ever touch their lives."
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