The Sun has an excellent interactive graphic that can display all the year’s homicide victims. You can select for different variables, so it’s fun to play with (if you’re a nerdy academic). One of the depressing things about homicide is the racial breakdown. Breaking violent crime down by race doesn’t get much press, probably because it treads on incredibly un-politically…
Month: December 2007
Hope for the Eastern’s most beautiful building
The Sun reportsthat the American Brewery is getting money for development. This building is gorgeous, in the Eastern District, and in complete disrepair. $35 million to convert the five-story former brewery into office space for a nonprofit social service. It’s good their going for office space rather than residential. The Eastern District is littered with failed residential conversions (the old…
Not the sharpest tack in the box
Cop brags about seized drug theft The New York Daily News reports that two narcotic detectives here caught after bragging on their own wire about stealing bags of seized cocaine. Corruption always involves drugs. But rarely in such idiotic fashion.
The Eastern District today
A student of mine went down to Baltimore and took some pictures of the Eastern. I don’t get there much anymore, even when I go to Baltimore. I don’t know anybody who lives there. In most ways, the Eastern looks like it hasn’t changed at all. In one big way, it’s changing a lot: the expansion of Johns Hopkins Hospital…
Cops 1 – Robber 0
For all the press police-involved shootings get in New York City, there are a lot more shootings in Baltimore if you take the difference in population into account (almost an equal number if you don’t). Baltimore shootings don’t get much press because the city isn’t a media center and Al Sharpton doesn’t live there. Instead, the local chapter of the…
Advance Praise for Cop in the Hood
“Peter Moskos, a sociologist by training, somewhat inadvertently became a police officer. Cop in the Hood is the fortuitous and fascinating result. It gives the reader the real dope from someone with the training and ability to put the street into the larger context. Highly recommended.” –Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University, cofounder of marginalrevolution.com. “Cop in the Hood is an…