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Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Moskos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 55007
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Pages: 245
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.7 x 1
ISBN: 0691140081
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.2092
EAN: 9780691140087
ASIN: 0691140081
Publication Date: June 22, 2008
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piCop in the Hood/i is an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer on the front lines of the war on drugs. Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos became a cop in Baltimore's roughest neighborhood--the Eastern District, also the location for the first season of the critically acclaimed HBO drama iThe Wire/i--where he experienced real-life poverty and violent crime firsthand. This revised and corrected edition of iCop in the Hood/i provides an unforgettable window into the world that outsiders never see--the thriving drug corners, the nerve-rattling patrols, and the heartbreaking failure of 911./pp Moskos reveals the truth about the drug war and why it is engineered to fail--a truth he learned on the midnight shift. He describes police academy graduates fully unprepared for the realities of the street. He tells of a criminal justice system that incarcerates poor black men on a mass scale--a self-defeating system that measures success by arrest quotas and fosters a street code at odds with the rest of society--and argues for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence and let cops once again protect and serve. Moskos shows how officers in the ghetto are less concerned with those policed than with self-preservation and maximizing overtime pay--yet how any one of them would give their life for a fellow officer. iCop in the Hood/i ventures deep behind the Thin Blue Line to disclose the inner workings of law enforcement in America's inner cities. Those who read it will never view the badge the same way again./p
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Horah for gonzo journalizm October 23, 2008
Robert W. Graham (Green Bay, WI)
This book will tell you things about policing that few civilians know, except maybe black people! Heh heh, just kidding. But, seriously, if you really want to know what the cops are up to read this book. My only complaint is that it was a bit short for such an important subject matter. I would have liked for it to have contained more stories from his time as a police officer.
 Cop in the Hood is Gold! September 19, 2008
Frances O'neill (Boston, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is amazing. It takes you into the real life of becoming a polie officer through the academy to life on the streets. Peter Moskos does an excellent job in telling the truth of the life of a police officer. For anyone interesting in becoming a police officer or would like to learn what life is like. This book is for you. I highly recomend it. This book was very well written.
A reasonable and sensitive policeman September 12, 2008
S. T. Svymbersky (Amsterdam, netherlands)
Peter Moskos presents himself as a reasonable and sensitive policeman who cares as much about the neighborhoods he's worked in as the other police officers he works with. His writing seems at once personal and well-researched. By giving us his first-hand account of how the war on drugs is damaging our inner cities and our police forces he makes a very convincing argument for real change in America's approach to the "drug problem." I found his writing engaging and persuasive and highly recommend this to anyone who still believes drugs are the cause of so many of our societal ills.
 Disappointing.... September 6, 2008
Dawn ~ (Maryland)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am writing this review for my husband who read the book. He said it felt more like a training manual than a story about a cop on the streets. Not what he expected.
Cop in the Hood July 17, 2008
Wallace O. Martin (Monkton, MD USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A truly insightful view of of a modern urban police force. As a Baltimore native, I have a greater understanding to the strategy and tactics employed to police this city.
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