Peter Moskos – The Extraordinary NYC Crime Drop
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
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🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
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Video Links
0:55 Peter’s new book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
5:27 Why policing went off the rails over the last decade
11:03 Peter: I’m done with police abolitionists
19:22 Why don’t we hear about unarmed black men getting shot anymore?
22:00 Remembering the lessons of ‘90s New York
28:07 Dealing with the racial disparity problem
35:46 Is there a suicide problem among cops?
39:31 The Ferguson Effect
43:12 The utility of pretextual stops
48:29 The pride felt by the 1990s NYPD
50:30 What cops think of Darren Wilson and Derek Chauvin
Recorded January 10, 2025
Links and Readings
Peter’s forthcoming book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
Peter’s book, In Defense of Flogging
Peter’s book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District
Tracy Mears on police legitimacy and the future of policing
Heather Mac Donald’s book, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
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| 0:49.5 | So podcast every week, John McWhorter is my conversation partner every other week this week. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm very happy to be joined by my old friend Peter Mosk, who's a professor at the John |
| 1:00.5 | J. College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, who's a doctorate degree |
| 1:05.9 | holder in sociology from Harvard. And a former, he spent a year as a cop in Baltimore walking a beat and is the author of a lot of different things. |
| 1:15.1 | Again, what do you call it in defense of flogging? |
| 1:18.6 | Yes, in defense of flogging. |
| 1:20.9 | An interesting, a cop in the hood is, is that your first book, Peter? |
| 1:25.1 | Cop in the hood is what I'm most known for. |
| 1:27.7 | That's what I banked my career on. |
| 1:29.1 | That's about policing in Baltimore. |
| 1:31.7 | It's a little starting to get bit dated now because it was 25 years ago. |
| 1:35.7 | Man, you're that old. |
| 1:36.8 | We're that old. |
| 1:38.2 | And the current book, the new book out from Oxford University Press, |
| 1:41.7 | which you can pre-order, I'm told, is called Back from the Brink. |
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