''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,
which encompassed a virtually all
African American ghetto of East Baltimore.
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.
See also
Books:
* ''
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets''
* ''
Tokyo Vice
''Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan'' is a 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working for one of Japan's largest newspapers, ''Yomiuri Shinbun''. It was publi ...
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General:
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Crime in Baltimore
References
External links
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Peter Moskos website
2008 non-fiction books
Baltimore Police Department
Crime in Baltimore
Culture of Baltimore
Non-fiction crime books
Princeton University Press books
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