Cop in the Hood My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

Name: Cop in the Hood My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
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ISBN: 9780691143866

ISBN-10: 0691143862

ISBN-13: 9780691143866

Edition: 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Moskos

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When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was 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 on the midnight shift.Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by number of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. In addition to telling an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.43" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English