The LA Times Homicide Map.

[huw williams]

If you're an Hispanic male in your mid 20s living in Inglewod don't go outside on a sunday I'd say

[huw williams]

I got picked up by a black and white on Glendale Boulevard once. My crime? Walking to the mexican restaurant. It was only three blocks from the hotel but the cops thought it was suspicious cos nobody walks in LA. Got away with a warning when I promised not to do it again. What a country

[adrian]

Fascinating stuff - as long as you don't have to live there

That's a lot of shooters kicking around. Even the murders marked 'other' turn out to be gunshot incidents.

And I thought Los Angeles was populated entirely by surfers, poodle-rockers and porn actors - or people who are all three

As ever, the apparently bare facts speak volumes:

[quote]Owen Gin, 26, a Latino man, was stabbed in the chest in a confrontation with his mother's 29-year-old boyfriend