# Cop in the Hood

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Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District Author Peter Moskos Language English Genre Crime Publisher Princeton University Press Publication date April 2008 Publication place United States Pages 245 ISBN 978-0-691-14008-7 OCLC 181079174 Dewey Decimal 363.2092 B 22 LC Class HV7911.M644 A3 2008

***Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District*** is a book written in 2008 by a former Baltimore [police officer](/source/Police_officer), [Peter Moskos](/source/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,[1] which encompassed a virtually all [African American ghetto](/source/African_American_ghetto) of East Baltimore.[2]

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](/source/John_Jay_College_of_Criminal_Justice), where he currently teaches.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## See also

**Books:**

- *[Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets](/source/Homicide%3A_A_Year_on_the_Killing_Streets)*

- *[Tokyo Vice](/source/Tokyo_Vice)*

**General:**

- [Crime in Baltimore](/source/Crime_in_Baltimore)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Moskos, Peter (2008). [*Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District*](https://archive.org/details/copinhoodmyyear00mosk) (Revised ed.). Princeton University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-069114008-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-069114008-7) – via [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoskos200810–11_2-0)** [Moskos 2008](#CITEREFMoskos2008), pp. 10–11.

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.copinthehood.com)

- [Peter Moskos website](http://www.petermoskos.com/)

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