Cop in the Hood
Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Sociology
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Never mind "The Wire." Here is the real thing. --The Wall Street Journal
Cop in the Hood is an explosive insider’s story of what it is really like to be a police officer on the front lines of the war on drugs. Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos became a cop in Baltimore’s roughest neighborhood — the Eastern District, also the location for the critically acclaimed HBO drama
The Wire. He provides an unforgettable window into this world that outsiders never see. Those who read it will never view the badge the same way.
Moskos argues for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence and let cops once again protect and serve.
Cop in the Hood shows how officers in the ghetto are less concerned with those policed than with self-preservation and maximizing overtime pay--yet how any one of them would give their life for a fellow officer. Moskos ventures deep behind the Thin Blue Line to disclose the inner workings of law enforcement in America's inner cities.
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I've been familiar with paramedic bike squads for a while now. A company i used to run with had a bike team for events and there was simply no better way to operate. I can guarantee they'll be working any number of Independence Day celebrations this weekend. The university I attended also runs a student EMS first response service that is all bike based (there's a lot of bike cops on campus too and, not surprisingly, it's the safest campus in the city despite its location in one of the worst areas of the city)
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