{{More citations needed|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox book | name = Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District | title_orig = | translator = | image = Copinthehood.jpg | caption = | author = [[Peter Moskos]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = [[Crime]] | publisher = [[Princeton University Press]] | release_date = April 2008 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = 245 | isbn = 978-0-691-14008-7 | dewey = 363.2092 B 22 | congress = HV7911.M644 A3 2008 | oclc = 181079174 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}
'''''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,<ref>{{cite book |last=Moskos |first=Peter |year=2008 |title=Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District |edition=Revised |publisher=Princeton University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/copinhoodmyyear00mosk |url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] |isbn=978-069114008-7}}</ref> which encompassed a virtually all [[African American ghetto]] of East Baltimore.{{sfn|Moskos|2008|pp=10–11}}
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.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}
== See also == '''Books:''' * ''[[Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets]]'' * ''[[Tokyo Vice]]''
'''General:''' * [[Crime in Baltimore]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.copinthehood.com}} * [http://www.petermoskos.com/ Peter Moskos website]
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