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Peter Moskos – The Extraordinary NYC Crime Drop

Peter Moskos – The Extraordinary NYC Crime Drop

The Glenn Show

January 17, 202554m 7s

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Show Notes

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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

Tanaya Devi and Roland Fryer’s paper, “Policing the Police: The Impact of ‘Pattern-or-Practice’ Investigations on Crime”



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