This book was written for the expressed purpose of drawing attention to the mindless slaughter of black and Hispanic youths in the streets of New York during the 1970s and 1980s. This slaughter continues today in most major cities of the United States.
The reader will get a glimpse into calculations and the minds of the detectives while investigating homicides. The hard truth about how life is lived where the rubber meets the road will become clear. The reader will feel the agony of the victim’s family and of the killer’s family as well.
This book is unique because the author, having been a homicide detective for fifteen years, was now taking part in a homicide investigation that involved a member of his own family. The reader will also see how unlike TV the investigators have to juggle several homicide investigations at the same time. The title is appropriate because of the many lives gone to waste over nothing at all.
