Another good review. From Publishers Weekly, a trade magazine: Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District Peter Moskos. Princeton Univ., $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-691-12655-5 A Harvard-trained sociologist, Moskos set out to do a one-year study of police behavior. Challenged by Baltimore’s acting police commissioner “to become a cop for real,” he accepted. During his six months in…
Month: March 2008
You see this cat is a baad mother–
What would you do when you get shot? Get a Slurpy? Shut your mouth! From today’s Baltimore Sun. Can you dig it? Man gets shot, takes cab to convenience store He hailed taxi, went to S. Baltimore 7-Eleven By Gus G. Sentementes Sun reporter 8:33 AM EST, March 5, 2008 A man who was shot several times in South Baltimore…
Free copy of Cop in the Hood!*…
*…for anybody I policed with. Or if you were in the academy class of 99-5. Odds are I don’t have your contact information, so email me at pmoskos@jjay.cuny.edu. I’d certainly prefer it if you bought your own copy. I don’t get my own book for free. I have to buy it from Amazon.com just like everybody else. But if you…
War on Drugs!
A 13-year-old girl in Tucson was strip-searched by school officials who suspected her of possessing ibuprofen (prescription-strength Advil). She didn’t have any. You can read her affidavit here.
Shocks the conscience
One-in-a-hundred adult Americans is behind bars. This figure has shocked some people since it made the headlines the other day. The Timesquoted a Professor Cassell as saying that our rate of imprisonment has “very tangible benefits: lower crime rates.” But this isn’t true. The prison rate has been increasing since 1970, so why didn’t crime go down until the mid…
Baltimore Bad Image Award
I love Baltimore. I do. I hope my book makes Baltimore a better place to live and police. But one of my fears is that my book will just contribute to Baltimore’s image problem. I wish I could write a book that talks about the good food and good people and good neighborhoods of Charm City. But I didn’t. Instead…