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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 location for the HBO drama The Wire. He provides an unforgettable window into a world outsiders never see. Those who read it will never view the badge the same way.

October 22, 2009

18-Year-Old Charged With Murder in Death of Woman, 92

“I don’t care about sob stories, bad background, poverty — none of that. As an adult, you know the difference between right and wrong. You have a choice and he made the wrong choice.”

Well said. Too bad it's from the daughter of an 82-year-old woman shot and killed.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hopefully he will get 5 or 10 years like the shooters in the Kathryn Johnston case.

Maybe he can get his trial moved to a more sympathetic location like Johannes Mehserle just did last week.