Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
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| Author | Peter Moskos |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Crime |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Publication date | April 2008 |
| Pages | 245 |
| ISBN | 978-0-691-14008-7 |
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District is a 2008 book written by former Baltimore Police Department police officer Peter Moskos describing a year spent as a police officer in Baltimore's Eastern District. Moskos, a Harvard graduate student raised in a white middle class liberal household describes his first hand experiences with poverty and violent crime in Baltimore's roughest police district[1] which encompassed a virtually all African American ghetto of East Baltimore.[2] In the book, Moskos argues in favor of reforming the criminal justice system and the legalization of drugs. After Moskos graduated from Harvard, he became a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he currently teaches.
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- ^ Moskos, Peter (2008) [2008]. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District (Revised ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14008-7. "Harvard trained sociologist Peter Moskos became a cop in Baltimore's roughest neighborhood-the Eastern District."
- ^ Moskos, Peter (2008) [2008]. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District (Revised ed.). Princeton University Press. pp. 10-11. ISBN 978-0-691-14008-7. "The area suffers from crime, drugs, and blight. Ninety-seven percent of the district is African American."
