LZ Granderson: How does discovering that we both live in Southern California make you feel differently about the place that you live in? LZ: I don't know what to do with that, like emotionally, when I'm simply living here. And so after completing this book, I worked with some of the leaders in the movement to end mass incarceration here in Los Angeles. We created a project called Million Dollar Hoods where we map how much is being spent on incarceration per neighborhood. In some communities, majority black and brown communities, millions of dollars is being spent every year to lock up local residents. Those are the million dollar hoods. It's also a project of mass eliminations