Winter 2006

Murder Metropolis

Los Angeles has a long and sordid history of murder, a pattern that will likely be difficult to break.

the source: “Homicide in Los Angeles, 1827–2002” by Eric H. Monkkonon, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2005.


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