Cop in the Hood : : My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District / / Peter Moskos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Moskos, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 2 line illus. 2 tables.

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 drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence--and let cops once again protect and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol--or, as he calls it, "policing green."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. The Departed -- CHAPTER 2. Back to School: The Police Academy -- CHAPTER 3. New Jack: Learning to Do Drugs -- CHAPTER 4. The Corner: Life on the Streets -- CHAPTER 5. 911 Is a Joke -- CHAPTER 6. Under Arrest: Discretion in the Ghetto -- CHAPTER 7. Prohibition: Al Capone's Revenge -- EPILOGUE. School Daze -- AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION. Policing Green -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index