Pacific Time podcast: Perspective on a decade of peril in South L.A.

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Times staff writer Scott Gold, who spent all of 2009 reporting on the progress, promise and peril in South Los Angeles, talks about the South L.A. of the mid-1980s, an environment so infused with economic distress, virulent drugs, rampant violence and pervasive cultural mistrust that serial killers could operate in obscurity and with impunity for about a decade.

He and colleague Andrew Blankstein write today about this dark chapter in the neighborhood’s history. Read the story here.

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The culmination of Scott’s yearlong project, Promise and Peril in South L.A., can be found at latimes.com/southla.

-- Michelle Maltais