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estimated as high as one in thirty-five
“The 1997 Chances of Lifetime Murder Victimization,” Section V, in
Crime in the United States, 1999
, Uniform Crime Reports, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
The figure used here is for a black male of the prisoner’s age by five-year interval. The corresponding chance for a white male was 1 in 251.

CHAPTER 21

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545 black men and boys had been killed in Los Angeles County
Files provided by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office. Thanks to Craig Harvey for years of assistance with this data.

EPILOGUE

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a dramatic easing of the residential hyper-segregation
Thanks to demographer William H. Frey for help in interpreting segregation patterns.

2
enrollment of working-age African Americans in SSI in 2009
See Patricia P. Martin and John L. Murphy, “Research and Statistics Note, No. 2014-01: African Americans: Description of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Participation and Benefit Levels Using the American Community Survey” (Social Security Administration, Official of Retirement and Disability Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics, January 2014), p. 13.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J
ILL
L
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is an award-winning reporter for the
Los Angeles Times
. She lives in Los Angeles.