Most of the time. The City Paper is starting to look into homicides to see what actually happens in the Hall of Justice. Sometimes somebody gets put away. Most of the times, not. I was turned onto this by the unfortunately fascinating Baltimore Crime Blog.
Category: Police
Save the date, Tuesday, May 13, 4:15pm
I’ll be on WBAL’s Ron Smith Show, Tuesday, May 13, at 4:15pm (EDT). You can listen to a live stream of the broadcast. I used to listen to WBAL a lot, because they used to broadcast the Orioles games. I particularly liked the local ads for crabcakes and the steamfitters and stevedores local. That’s keeping it real.
That’s where the money is
A 10AM robbery of an armored truck pulled up at Lexington Market is bold, to say the least. Here’s the Sun’s account. Makes me think of the line from the Godfather, at least as I remember it: “Forget the gun, grab the crabcake!”
Officer Pete says (rule 24):
Always have your driver’s license on you when you drive. If not, please obey all the traffic laws.
Is “Cop” a bad word?
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”…
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…