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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.

December 30, 2009

And now you know... the rest of the story!

Fatal stabbing suspect Cyan Brown, 16, was the aggressor in Christmas Eve New York subway fracas, police say.

This happened in an area I go through a lot. The original reports said: poor girl "fondled" by group of bad men and stabbed one in self defense. The cop in me knew that wasn't the whole story (when will reporters ever learn?). The truth is never (or almost never) that simple. Now the real story seems to be coming out.

The account in the New York Daily News.
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2 comments:

Johnny Law said...

PCM,

Just wanted to let you know I put a review up of your book at my site:

http://law-chronicles.blogspot.com/

December 31, 2009 1:38 PM
PCM said...

Thanks Johnny. Fair enough!

December 31, 2009 2:48 PM

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