The Homicide Report Details Every Murder in Los Angeles County

The Homicide Report, a blog written by Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovi, is receiving a lot of attention lately.

The Homicide Report is a blog that details the names of every person murdered in Los Angeles County. Leovi has been documenting the homicides for over a year.

Newspapers in large cities, such as the Los Angeles Times, only reports murders that are noteworthy. However, according to Leovi, elementary school drive-bys and celebrity murders only account for 10 percent of the county's killings.

The Homicide Report began in January 2007 with 17 names collected from the coroner's office and grew to include about 845 names by the end of the year.

Los Angeles County covers 4,000 square miles and 89 municipalities. However, the majority of Leovi's report is concentrated in five of them: Compton, Hawthorne, Florence, Watts and Boyle Heights. Each of these places is located in the southern part of the county and is predominantly Latino and/or African-American.

The Homicide Report includes information that delves deeper than what is generally reported, such as homicide funerals, street memorials and fundraisers for the funerals themselves.

Leovi recently handed over the blog to fellow LA Times reporter, Ruben Vives. With Vives, she thinks the report will broaden people's scope on the culture of murders in Los Angeles communities by adding stories to the unheard and unseen.

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