When I tell you that a New York City police officer was caught milking the welfare system, your first thought should be, “what’s a police officer doing on welfare?!” Good question, thanks for asking. The starting salary of the NYPD is $25,100 a year. Granted it goes up a lot after 6 months, but still.…
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Here’s the text for the back of the book. It makes everything sound so exciting that even I want to re-read my book… 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…
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This is the fun part of writing a book: having other people do work after you’re done. This will be the cover. I like it.
Way back when, I submitted an article to a prominent ethnography journal. Time passed. Nothing happened. I submitted the article elsewhere. It was reviewed, accepted and published this past summer. Yesterday I received a reply from the journal. Rejection. I have never been in the somewhat awkward a position to receive a rejection for a…
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So Michael Vic apologized for dog fighting. I don’t believe him. He likes dog fighting. He’s not the only one. There’s lots of dog fighting in the Eastern District. That’s just the way it is. Many cops I worked with were very upset at animal mistreatment. One time I answered a call for a pit…
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Some of the blight of the Eastern RIP graffiti: You can’t outrun a mural. Pig on pig. Ladies… After a cutting. After being cut. It could have been me… but it wasn’t! (I blurred their faces)
A prisoner escaped from a Jamaica Queens police station yesterday while being questioned by two detectives. Here’s the New York Times account. The article says, in part: The suspect, Maxie Dacosta Jr., 27, of Queens, remained at large last night. The detective, whose name was not released, was suspended without pay and was forced to…
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