Peter Moskos

Professor Peter Moskos teaches in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Moskos, a Princeton and Harvard trained sociologist, is a former Baltimore City Police Officer, director of John Jay College’s NYPD Executive Master’s Leadership Program, a Senior Fellow of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project, and the official historian of New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection Police.

Moskos is Director of John Jay College’s NYPD Executive Master’s Leadership Program, is a faculty member in CUNY’s Doctoral Program in Sociology, has taught introductory criminal justice classes at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, and was a visiting scholar at the National Policing College, Bramshill, England.

Moskos, a former Baltimore City police officer, studies people the old-fashioned way: He talks to them. Moskos’s four books — Back from the Brink, Cop in the Hood, In Defense of Flogging, and Greek Americans — have won high praise and earned him recognition as one of Atlantic Magazine’s “Brave Thinkers” of the year. He has also published in the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Daily News, New York Post, Macleans, Vital City, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and his “Quality Policing” podcast and blog.

His fourth book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop (Oxford University Press) in an account of the policing, Compstat, and New York City’s great 1990’s crime drop.

Peter Moskos can be reached at: mail@petermoskos.com.

Shorter bio: Professor Peter Moskos is a professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Moskos, a Princeton and Harvard trained sociologist, is the author of four books, the most recent being Back from the Brink, an oral history about NYC’s 1990s crime drop. He is a former Baltimore City Police Officer and the director of John Jay College’s NYPD Executive Master’s Leadership Program.

Evergreen link countering the claim “we _know_ police don’t prevent crime”: https://petermoskos.com/police-research-and-books/