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Presciently arriving at a time when tumultuous relations
between U.S. police departments and communities of color have spawned a
movement that proclaims “Black Lives Matter,” Nick Broomfield’s documentary
“Tales of the Grim Sleeper” introduces a countervailing term: “NHI,” or “no
human involved.”
That, we learn in this disturbing study of urban crime, is
what Los Angeles police would write, in code to each other, on reports where
the victims were minority drug abusers, prostitutes or gang members. Such
social marginals, the cops evidently thought, almost deserved to be knocked
off, and the community at large was better off without them. Why give