Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

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...