Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District

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When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the study room to turn into a cop in Baltimore’s Eastern District, he was once thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street–the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned at the nighttime shift.

Through Moskos’s eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by collection of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. Along with telling an explosive insider’s story of what it’s in point of fact like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence–and let cops once again offer protection to and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol–or, as he calls it, “policing green.”

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