I gave a talk on my book today at John Jay College. After the talk a man came up to me asking about my use of “cop.” He said when he was a kid, it was considered a bad word. Police officer is the proper term. A couple of cops and students present discussed the issue. I don’t consider “cop”…
Month: May 2008
Philadelphia PD shame
Philadelphia cops pulled three men out of a car and beat the crap out of them. For about 30 seconds. I find it inexcusable. I’m sure these guys who were beat are not good people. And no, I don’t know the whole story. But I can’t imagine anyscenario where it’s these beatings are justified. What were they thinking? They were…
Blog people…
If you have a link to my book on Amazon.com, take note: Because of the coming re-release of my book, the amazon link has changed. The old link is dead. The new link is: http://www.amazon.com/Cop-Hood-Policing-Baltimores-District/dp/0691140081/ But you should search for it yourself with whatever link/referral service you use. Sorry for the trouble.
Officer Pete says (rule 25):
Drive slower when it rains.
Praise for Cop in the Hood
Doug LeMaine, an obviously smart man with excellent taste in books, posted this on his website. I couldn’t have said it better myself: Last week I picked up a book called Cop in the Hood by a grad student turned cop (turned academic) named Peter Moskos. He’s a law professor now [I’m not a law professor. But a lot of…
I am enjoying your book
This came to me today: I came across your book at baltimorecrime.blogspot.com, so far I am 50 pages in to it and I have to say that you have an excellent way of speaking the truth. I am a Baltimore police officer […] and I have a B.S. in Criminal Justice from […] (I am debating whether or not to…
Interviewed in the Economist magazine
How nice to post something that will not mention… hmmm… shall we say, oh hell, let’s not say anything at all. There’s a great short (16 minute) audio interview of me talking about crime and police and drug legalization. I get a kick how the hook of the interview is the “liberal sociologist.” By police standards, sure. But by liberal…
Officer Pete says (rule 26):
Just because you “got a job” doesn’t mean I won’t arrest you.
The Chronicle
Well, ifany publicity is good publicity, I’ve sure been getting a lot of good publicity. The latest is by Jennifer Howard at The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 2, 2008 Princeton U. Press Recalls Typo-Filled Book and Says It Will Reprint Princeton University Press has recalled all copies of one of its spring titles after discovering more than 90 spelling…
The Great(,) Humiliation Column
I got a call from Laura Vozzella of the Baltimore Sunthe other day. I thought maybe she was a reviewer asking about a press release from Princeton Press telling reviewers to hold off until the new edition is out. But I got worried when I started talking about the errors and heard the tapity-tap-type of note taking in the background.…