My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 334 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-14386-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press
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."
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Acknowledgments ix
CHAPTER 1: The Departed 1
CHAPTER 2: Back to School: The Police Academy 19
CHAPTER 3: New Jack: Learning to Do Drugs 38
CHAPTER 4: The Corner: Life on the Streets 64
CHAPTER 5: 911 Is a Joke 89
CHAPTER 6: Under Arrest: Discretion in the Ghetto 111
CHAPTER 7: Prohibition: Al Capone's Revenge 158
EPILOGUE: School Daze 184
AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
Policing Green 197
Notes 213
Bibliography 233
Index 257
