Cop in the Hood
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 ey...
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 ey...
