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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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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 40332
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 245
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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 Cop in the Hood is excellent April 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Anyone who loved The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything will love this intrinsic look into Baltimore policing as a microcosm for the war on drugs. Moskos shows the inner working of a system so many of us have preconceived notions about. Is it racist? Turns out it isn't. Is it working? No. Is it the cop's fault? Not the ones that are on the street.
Moskos mixes lyrics by rapper Ice T, quotes by Al Capone and police statistics immaculately. The writing about middle of the night encounters with dealers, junkies and gang members is amazingly detailed, and constantly put me in his position as a rookie cop on the dangerous East Baltimore streets. What would I do if I were in his position? I would be afraid. Very afraid.
The day to day life (or night to night life in Moskos' case) is filled with such encounters many of them having very humane and sometimes humorous resolutions. In one case Moskos is dealing with a domestic assault where none of the other cops wanted to get into the house because it smelled so bad. Moskos confronted the woman:
"Why is it so stinky?" I asked the woman.
"He don't bathe. Not in a year."
"Why not?"
"He lazy."
"That's pretty lazy," I said, "because once you get in the tub, bathing kind of takes care of itself."
(In this case Moskos didn't get him to bathe)
The book is filled with simple and realistic "tipping point" ideas on how to improve the current system from within while using Prohibition and the successful Dutch non-war on drugs as examples of a greater historical context without ever being preachy. Cop in the Hood is a must read, not just for non-fiction lovers and avid viewers of HBO's The Wire - The Complete First Season, but, truly, for everyone who ever wondered about this thing called the war on drugs.
Cop in the Hood July 17, 2008
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.
Cop in the Hood is Gold! September 19, 2008
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.
 Disappointing.... September 6, 2008
0 out of 2 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.
A reasonable and sensitive policeman September 12, 2008
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.
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