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Back on the Ron Smith show
It looks like I’ll be back on WBAL’s Ron Smith Show Tuesday, June 17, 5pm. AM 1090 in Baltimore. If you’re not in Balto, you can stream the show online.
Much less scintillating that Whitey Bulger’s right-hand man
So says Steven Levitt (of Freakonomics fame) about me and my book in his Freakonomics blog in the New York Times. And for that, I can only thank God. But I’m pleased that Levitt liked my book. Much less scintillating than a book by Whitey Bulger’s right-hand man? I should hope so. I was just a poor beat cop in…
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.
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…
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…
Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio
I’ll be on Talk of the Nation today, after 2pm, Eastern Time.
Regarding Sean Bell
Clearly something wrong happened because an innocent man was killed,” Peter Moskos, author of Cop in the Hood, and a professor at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told TIME. “But that’s not what the system was testing. They were testing if there was reasonable doubt. I think the verdict is fair, but it doesn’t address that this…
A genuine “good guy”
Initially my presence was greeted with skepticism, especially from supervisors who believed, probably accurately, that nothing good could come from my writing. One lieutenant told me: “Moskos, I like you. But I don’t want anything to do with your book. I don’t want to be in it. I don’t want my name in it. I don’t want any part of…