Cop in the Hood

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Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District is a book written in 2008 by a former Baltimore police officer, Peter Moskos. In this book Peter describes his one-year working 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

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.^{[citation needed]}

See also

Books:

• Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
• Tokyo Vice

General:

• Crime in Baltimore

References

External links

• Official website
• Peter Moskos website

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