CV – Peter Moskos

Vita

Professor Peter C. Moskos
Dept of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 W. 59th St., Room 422
New York, NY 10019
email: mail@petermoskos.com
website: petermoskos.com

_{(CV updated September, 2024)}

BIO

Peter Moskos is a professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the director of the NYPD Executive Masters Leadership Program. He also serves on the faculty of the City University of New York’s Doctoral Program in Sociology and has taught in the Department of Social Science at LaGuardia Community College. Moskos is a Senior Fellow of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project.

Moskos is a Harvard and Princeton trained sociologist and former Baltimore City police officer. He focuses on police culture, crime prevention, qualitative methods, and ending the war on drugs.

His first book, Cop in the Hood, won the 2008 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE), Best Book in Sociology. His second book, In Defense of Flogging, was listed as a “Favorite Book of the Year” by Mother Jones and earned Moskos recognition as one of Atlantic Magazine’s “Brave Thinkers of 2011.” Moskos’s third book, Greek Americans: Struggle and Success (3rd edition, 2013), examines the history, culture, and status of Greek immigrants and their descendants in American. His fourth book, “Back from the Brink” (2025) examines the 1990’s NYC crime drop from the perspective of cops who were on the job.

Along with books and academic journal publications, Moskos reaches policy makers and the broader public though media appearances and articles in the New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN.com, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington Monthly, Macleans, Pacific Standard, Slate, his blog copinthehood.com, and his podcast Quality Policing.

Moskos was born in Chicago, went to public schools in Evanston, Illinois, and lives in Astoria, Queens.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2004. Harvard University, Sociology.
M.A. 2004. Harvard University, Sociology.
A.B. 1994. Princeton University, Sociology (Magna Cum Laude).
Evanston Township High School. 1989.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Policing; crime prevention; police education; sociology of police; qualitative methods.

BOOKS

• Back From the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop. (February 2025, Oxford University Press).

• Greek Americans: Struggle and Success (third edition). by Peter Moskos and Charles Moskos. New Jersey: Transactions Books (Now Routledge). 2013.
Reviewed in Journal of Modern Greek Studies, AHIF (American Hellenic Institute Foundation) Policy Journal (Spring 2016). Featured in The National Herald (New York), “Greek of the Week” (New Greek TV).

• In Defense of Flogging. Basic Books. 2011.
Reviewed in The Economist, Mother Jones, Bloomberg, MacClean’s, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast, New York Newsday, Washington Times, Cleveland Free Press (Mansfield Frazier), Public Discourse: Ethics, Law, and the Common Good, News Observer (N.C.), The Village Voice, Library Journal, The National Herald (Astoria, NY), Organizer (India), California Lawyer, Good, Public Discourse, News-Observer, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Metapsychological Online Review, and Baltimore City Paper.
Featured in Mother Jones (Favorite Books of the Year, 2011), The Atlantic (Brave Thinkers of 2011), New Yorker, Chicago Tribune (Clarence Page), Maclean’s, Newser, Salon.com, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Mail (UK), PBS NewsHour, The Crime Report, Vice, Winona Daily News (MN), Hartford Advocate (CT), New Haven Advocate (CT), Ahmededabad Mirror (Gujarat, India), The Boston Globe (Jeff Jacoby), Harpers, Time, CNN, Andrew Sullivan, Otago Daily Times (New Zealand), Chicago Sun-Times (Neil Steinberg), Época (Brazil), Vulture Anticipation Index, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vice, Ethics Alarms, Catholic Moral Theology, CNN In the Arena, Hartford Advocate, NewsTalk (Ireland), The Current (CBC radio), Brian Lehrer (WNYC), Charles Adler Show (Canada), The Takeaway (PRI), Joy Cardin Show (Wisconsin Public Radio), Air Talk with Larry Mantle (LA, NPR), National Post (Canada), Baltimore City Paper, Register-Guard (Oregon), NPR Weekend Edition, The Project (Australia), The Herald Sun (Australia), Sunday World (Australia), The Herald Sun’s Investigator (Australia), The Project (Australia), The National Herald (New York). Textbook adaptation: Naughton, Joanne (2012) Annual Editions: Criminal Justice 12/13 (36th edition). McGraw Hill.

• Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District. Princeton University Press. 2008.
Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award for best book in sociology.
Reviewed in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Global Crime, Contemporary Sociology, ACJS Today, International Social Science Review, Jewish Post & Opinion, Baltimore Examiner, Global Sociology, Publishers Weekly, Baltimore City Paper, and Freakanomics.
Featured in Nation, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, City Paper, Marginal Revolution, The Monkey Cage, Slate, Community Policing Dispatch (U.S. Dept. of Justice), Sociology: A Brief Introduction, Crooked Timber, The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC), Wired.

ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, & REVIEWS
• Moskos, Peter. 2024. “Homicide: Life in the Stats: When national trends clash with on-the-ground realities.” Vital City. February 28.
• Del Pozo, Brandon, Peter Moskos, John K. Donohue, and John Hall. 2024. “Registering a Proposed Business Reduces Police Stops of Innocent People? Reconsidering the Effects of Strip Clubs on Sex Crimes Found in Ciacci & Sviatschi’s Study of New York City.” Police Practice and Research. DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2023.2253350. April. Vol 25(3).
• Moskos, Peter. 2023. Liberal Patriot. “The Crisis of Police and Public Safety.” November 24.
• Moskos, Peter. 2023. Vital City. “Fix Public Policy or Pay a Price.” John Hall and Peter Moskos. March 16.
• Moskos, Peter. 2023. Vital City. “The Rebirth of Times Square, Port Authority and Bryant Park: How law enforcement and civic actors worked together to rejuvenate New York City in the 1990s.” June 7.
• Moskos, Peter. 2021. (editor) “The Violence Reduction Project.” A collection of essays on reducing violence. https://qualitypolicing.com/violencereduction/
• Moskos, Peter. 2016. Review of Waverly Duck’s No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing. “On Being Black and Poor in a Small City.” Metropolitics. May 24, 2016.
• Moskos, Peter. 2015. “Observations on the Making of a Police Officer” in Envisioning Criminology: Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery. Michael D. Maltz and Stephen K. Rice (eds.) Springer.
• John Jay College’s CJA Instructor Toolkit. “The Art of Teaching.” 2015.
• John Jay College’s CJA Instructor Toolkit. “Teaching Introduction to Policing.” 2015.
• John Jay College’s CJA Instructor Toolkit. “Using Model Syllabi.” 2015.
• Moskos, Peter. 2013. Review of Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop: “Lockdown Nation: How military-style policing became America’s new normal.” Pacific Standard, July/August 2013.
• Moskos, Peter. 2013. “The Four-Percent Solution: A Discussion of the Caveats of Catching Big Fish with Nets.” ACJS Today, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Vol 38(2).
• Moskos, Peter. 2013. Review of Bryn Caless’s “Policing at the Top: The Roles, Values and Attitudes of Chief Police Officers”: International Criminal Justice Review, 22, no. 4: 453-455.
• Moskos, Peter. 2013. Introduction. Collins, Peter A. & David C. Brody, eds. Crime and Justice in the City as Seen Through “The Wire.” Carolina Academic Press.
• Moskos, Peter. 2012. “The Corner: Life on the Streets.” In Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork, edited by Richard E. Ocejo. New York: Routledge. 2012.
• Moskos, Peter. 2012. The Chronicle of Higher Education. “James Q. Wilson’s Practical Humanity.” March 3. Reprinted in ACJS Today: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. 37(5): 28-30.
• Moskos, Peter. 2011. “Damned if You Don’t: The Dilemma of Police Discretion.” ACJS Today: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. 37(2):19-21.
• Gideon, Lior and Peter Moskos. “Observations as Data Collection Methods.” In Theories of Research Methodology: Readings in Methods (2nd edition), edited by Lior Gideon. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2011.
• Gideon, Lior and Peter Moskos. “The Interview.” In Theories of Research Methodology: Readings in Methods (2nd edition), edited by Lior Gideon. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2011.
• Moskos, Peter. 2011. Review of Jennifer Hunt’s “Seven Shots: An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath”: Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations, 1, no. 1: 90-92.
• Moskos, Peter. 2011. Review of Vicky Conway’s “The Blue Wall of Silence: The Morris Tribunal and Police Accountability in Ireland”: International Criminal Justice Review, 21, no. 2: 171-172.
• Moskos, Peter. “In Defense of Doing Nothing: The Methodological Utility of Introversion.” In New Directions in Sociology: Essays on Theory and Methodology in the 21st Century, edited by Ieva Zake and Michael DeCesare, 160-171. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2011.
• Chronicle of Higher Education. “In Defense of Flogging.” April 24, 2011.
Reprinted: The Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.), May 8.
• Moskos, Peter. 2010. “Policing: A Sociologist’s Response to an Anthropological Account.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 33, no. S1: 32-35.
• Moskos, Peter. 2008. Review of Bernard E. Harcourt’s “Against Prediction”: American Journal of Sociology, 113, no. 5: 1464-1477.
• Moskos, Peter. 2008. “Two Shades Of Blue: White and Black in the Blue Brotherhood.” Law Enforcement Executive Forum 8, no. 5 (September).
• Moskos, Peter. 2008. “The Better Part of Valor: Court-Overtime Pay as the Main Determinant for Discretionary Police Arrests.” Law Enforcement Executive Forum, 8, no. 4 (May).
• Moskos, Peter. 2007. “Nine-One-One and the Failure of Police Rapid Response.” Law Enforcement Executive Forum, 7, no. 4 (May): 137-150.
• Moskos, Peter. 2005. Review of Norm Stamper’s Breaking Rank: Law Enforcement News, (September).
• Police in the Hood. 2005. Harvard Sociology PhD dissertation.
• Moskos, Peter. 1995. “Afro-Anglo: America’s Core Culture: A Consolidation of Peoples in the United States.” National Journal of Sociology, 9, No. 2.

NEWSPAPER AND MEDIA ARTICLES
• Boston Globe. “Take it from two former cops: We need to reimagine the job of policing.” Brandon del Pozo and Peter Moskos. February 9, 2023.
• Wall Street Journal. “The Murder Spike of 2020: When Police Pull Back.” July 23, 2021.
• New York Post. “Crime-Spike Myths: COVID didn’t cause it, and it’s not a ‘hysteria.’ July 2, 2021.
• CNN.com. “The Nobility of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick.” February 1, 2021.
• New York Daily News. “Is this the end of crime decline?” July 19, 2020.
• New York Daily News. “Violent, mentally ill, on the street: We need to do better than this.” October 28, 2019.
• New York Daily News. “What Tiffany Cabán inherits: A great deal of work has already been done to make prosecutions in Queens more progressive.” July 3, 2019.
• Washington Post. “Baltimore’s police problems go beyond just a few criminals in uniform.” February 13, 2018.
• Washington Post. “Trump wants to reduce crime. But he doesn’t understand good police work.” February 22, 2017.
Reprinted: Waco Tribune. February 24, 2017.
• Cato Unbound. “The Politics of Prison.” November 15, 2016.
• CNN.com. “Who’s really to blame in the Freddie Gray case (updated).” July 18, 2016.
• CNN.com. “After Dallas, tone it down.” July 8, 2016.
• CNN.com. “Who’s really to blame in the Freddie Gray case.” June 25, 2016.
• Baltimore Sun. “Nero should never have been charged.” By Peter Moskos and Leon Taylor. May 26, 2016.
• Washington Post Post Everything. “Just counting people killed by police won’t fix problems. We need better data.” By Peter Moskos and Nick Selby, January 15, 2016.
• Washington Post. “The complexities of traffic stops, from a police officer’s perspective.” July 29, 2015.
Reprinted: Chicago Tribune, July 29, 2015.
• The New York Times. “Crime in Baltimore Rises as Support for Police Declines. June 5, 2015.
• CNN.com. “The right way for cops to retakes streets.” June 5, 2015.
• GQ. by Geoffrey Gagnon. Q&A with Peter Moskos: “We have to Solve the Problems of America That Nobody Wants to Deal With.” April 30, 2015.
• CNN.com. “Who gave this reserve cop a gun?” April 14, 2014.
• Washington Post. “Think Walter Scott’s death is ‘another Ferguson’? Cops don’t.” April 10, 2015 (April 12 print edition).
Reprinted: Business Insider, April 11. Tampa Bay Times, April 12.
• CNN.com. “Why would you want to be a cop?” March 16, 2015.
• CNN.com. “The problem with ‘The Thin Blue Line.” December 22, 2014.
• New York Daily News. “When Should Cops Use Force?” August 6, 2014.
• CNN.com. “Why just blaming cops won’t help Baltimore.” April 30, 2014.
• Australian Police Journal Limited. “In Defense of Flogging.” March 2014.
• City Limits. “Arguments Against Rent Regulations are Vacant of Facts.” Jan 24, 2014.
• The New York Times. Room for Debate. “You Can’t Blame the Police.” March 12, 2012.
• Slate. “Which Side are They On: How Cops Really Feel About the Occupy Wall Street Protests.” November 14, 2011.
Featured in Geeze. January 25, 2012.
• Reclaim. “In Praise of the Beat Cop.” Winter, 2012.
• Washington Monthly (online). “Dumb-ass Training and the U.C. Davis Pepper Spray Incident: Thoughts From a Former Cop.” November 18, 2011.
• Daily Caller. “The Case for Flogging Criminals.” November 14, 2011.
• Reason. “Collars for Dollars.” July 2011.
• Washington Post. “In Lieu of Prison, Bring Back the Lash.” June 15, 2011.
Reprinted: Newser.com, June 16. Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), June 16. StarTribune (Minneapolis/St. Paul), June 17. News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), June 17. The News Journal (Wilmington, DE), June 17. West Hawaii Today, June 17. Winona Daily News (MN), June 17. Madison.com (Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times) June 18. Tulsa World, June 18. The Oregonian, June 19. Daily Camera (Boulder, CO), June 19. Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS), June 20. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 26. Newsday (New York), July 20.
• National Post (Canada). “Whipping is the Kinder Choice.” June 15, 2011.
• Wall Street Journal. “Imprisonment and the Lash.” June 2, 2011.
• Guest Blogger. The Agitator. May 2011.
• Washington Monthly. “Bring Back the Lash.” May-June 2011.
• Washington Post. “Time to Tell: Son says author of military’s ‘don’t ask’ would now repeal it.” June 4, 2010.
Reprinted: The Salt Lake Tribune, June 4. Austin Statesman, June 4. Miami Herald, June 4. Concord Monitor, June 5. Stars and Stripes, June 8. News Journal (Wilmington, DE), June 8.
• Streetsblog. “Why Cops Should Live in the Hood: Talking Traffic with Peter Moskos.”April 13, 2010.
• West Side Spirit (New York). “Why you never chase.” February 26, 2010.
Reprinted: Streetsblog, March 2, 2010.
• Princeton Alumni Weekly. “Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District.” Vol 110, No 4 (Nov 4, 2009).
• Washington Post. “From Amsterdam: Lessons on controlling drugs.” October 25, 2009.
Reprinted: Twin City Pioneer Press, October 26. Winnipeg Free Press, October 27.
• The American Interest. “Angels in Blue: The Virtues of Foot Patrol.” September/October 2009.
• Baltimore Sun. “The Cop’s Eye View Of the Gates’ Arrest.” July 31, 2009.
• New York Times. “The Gates Case and Racial Profiling: No Easy Answer.” July 22, 2009.
• Washington Post. Review of The Thin Black Line, by Hugh Holton. January 11, 2008.
• U.S. News & World Report. “Too Dangerous Not to Regulate.” August 4, 2008.
• New York Times. “Driving While Black.” June 30, 2006.
• Baltimore Sun. “Take the Violence Out of the Drug Trade.” August 3, 2004.
• Washington Post. “Balancing Security and Liberty.” August 2, 2004.
• Washington Post. “Old-School Cops in a New-School World.” August 5, 2003.
Reprinted: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), August 7. The Albuquerque Journal, August 11. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 11. Law Enforcement News (John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY), October 15, 2005.
• Washington Post. “Victims of the War on Drugs.” July 9, 2003.
Reprinted: Cannabis News, July 9. Watertown Daily Times (New York), July 11. Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Florida), July 13. Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey), July 14. Sun-Sentinel (South Florida), July 15. Hartford Courant (Connecticut), July 15. News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), July 16. Detroit News, July 23. Holland Sentinel (Michigan), July 25. The New Times (Vicksburg, Mississippi), September.
• New York Post. “Feet on the Street.” June 23, 2003.
• Baltimore Sun. “U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Sowed Confusion, Injustice.” May 3, 2001.
Cited: Petition for Rehearing, submitted to US Supreme Court, 99-1408 Atwater, et al. v. Lago Vista, Texas, et al. June 2001.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES
• “How Crime Analysts Saved the New York.” Massachusetts Association of Crime Analysts New England State Police Information Network 2024 Crime Analysis & Intelligence Training Conference. Plymouth, Massachusetts. October 10, 2024.
• “NYPD Compstat 30th Anniversary.” Panel co-discussant. The Penn Club. New York City. April 30th, 2024.
• “The Crisis of Police and Public Safety.” The Liberal Patriot National Policy Retreat. October 27-29, 2023.
• Revisiting Broken Windows: Connecting Theory to Policy for America’s Public Safety. Pepperdine University. October 26, 2023.
• “A New Era of Public Safety: Rehabilitating a Broken System.” Atlantic Festival. Washington, D.C. 2023.
• “Crime and Policing in Post-Covid New York.” Penn Club of NYC. June 27, 2023.
• “At the Crossroads.” Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Forum. New York City. March 29, 2022.
• “Abolish Police?” Claremont McKenna College. Claremont, CA. October 20, 2021.
• “Regional Differences in Police Use of Lethal Force.” Policing Post George Floyd: Reinvestment, Reallocation and Transformation. Stockton University. Atlantic City, NJ. October 1, 2021.
• “The Fallible Detective: Changing perspectives on wrongful arrests and police misconduct.” 15th Annual John Jay Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America. February 21, 2020
• “Revisiting Police Education.” Academy for Criminal Justice Science (ACJS) Annual Meeting. Baltimore. March 30, 2019.
• “Unpacking the Racial Disparity of Demand: Rethinking the narrative of police interactions.” Department of Sociology, John Hopkins University. March 27, 2019.
• “Ethnography, Ethics, & Law.” Interrogating Ethnography. Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Chicago. October 20-21, 2017.
• “Greek Americans: Struggle and Success.” The Athens Centre. Athens, Greece. June 7, 2017.
• “Every 28 Hours,” panel discussion. McCarter Theater. Princeton, NJ. October 24, 2016.
• “Policing in a Free Society.” Liberty Fund. New Orleans. May 19 – 22, 2016.
• “Innovations for Urban Security and Policing.” The London School of Economics program on “New Urban Governance.” NYU. November 10, 2015.
• Greek Genealogy Conference. Greek Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral Ballroom, New York. April 25, 2015.
• “Keep the Peace, Peacefully: A journalism workshop on police, race and community relations.” Columbia College (Chicago). April 23-24, 2015.
• “Cop in the Hood.” University of Pittsburgh. March 23, 2015.
• “Greek Americans: Struggle and Success.” Greek Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral Ballroom, New York. January 22, 2015.
• “Vision Zero Enforcement & Investigation.” Session Moderator. Brooklyn Law School. November 14, 2014.
• “Ethnography: A Conference and a Retreat.” Yale University. April 10th-12th, 2014.
• “Turning Research into Writing: Cop in the Hood.” Francis Marion University. March 4, 2014.
• “Methodology of Cop in the Hood.” Department of Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University. January 20, 2014.
• Sydney Opera House Festival of Dangerous Ideas (Australia). November 2nd-4th, 2013.
• “From Desk to Street and Back: Conceptualizing, Researching, and Writing an Ethnography People Want to Read.” Yale University. Ethnography Seminar with Prof. Elijah Anderson. October 8, 2012.
• “In Defense of Flogging: Mass Incarceration and its Alternatives.” Yale University Law School. March 27, 2012.
• Panel Discussion on “The Wire” (with Elijah Anderson). Brown University. May 2011.
• Alpha Kappa Delta (Sociology Honor Society), keynote speaker, Montclair State University. April 2011.
• “The Failure of Prohibition.” Baruch College. February 2011.
• “Author Meets Critics: Seven Shots.” The American Society of Criminology Conference Annual Meeting. San Francisco. November 2010.
• “The Craft of Ethnography: A New Workshop on the Practice of Ethnography.” Columbia University. December 2010.
• “Drug Legalizing Cop Speaks: Peter Moskos on the Failure of Prohibition.” Columbia University. September 2010.
• “NYPD’s Stop & Frisk: Racial Profiling or Good Policing?” LaGuardia Community College. June 2010.
• Arizona State University, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation (via skype). April 2010.
• SUNY Empire State College, Staten Island. March 2010.
• “New Methods in Ethnographic Research.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Philadelphia. March 2010.
• “The Truth About Crime: How can a community deal with anti-social behavior?” A BBC film by Roger Graef. Panel discussion. John Jay College. February 2010.
• “Introversion as an Ethnographic Tool.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Boston. March 2009.
• “It ain’t about right, it’s about money.” Keynote Speaker. The Wire as Social Science Fiction. ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). Leeds, UK. November 2009.
• “The Law-Enforcement Perspective.” Safe Injection Facilities of New York. John Jay College. May 22, 2009.
• Killadelphia: A Panel Discussion. Part of the Gerald W. Lynch Theater’s Art of Justice Series: Integrating the Arts & Issues of Justice. April 2009.
• Northwestern University. Department of Sociology Colloquium Series. April 2009.
• Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality Colloquium Series. April 2009.
• University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. April 2009.
• Yale University Urban Ethnography Project mini-conference, “The Urban Ghetto: Then and Now.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Baltimore. March 2009.
• “The Urban Ghetto: Then and Now.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Baltimore. March 2009.
• SUNY Stony Brook. February 2009.
• New York University. February 2009.
• Brown University. February 2009.
• Philoctetes Society Roundtable. “Aggression.” New York City. February 2009.
• University of Pennsylvania Urban Ethnography Workshop. February 2009.
• Harm Reduction Coalition. New York City. January 2009.
• New York Academy of Medicine and Drug Policy Alliance. “New Directions for New York: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy: Harm Reduction Pillar – Coordinating Strategies.” New York City. January 2009.
• “Closing Plenary: Race, Inner Cities, and the Drug War.” Students for Sensible Drug Policy Tenth Annual Conference. College Park, Maryland. November 2008.
• “The Better Part of Valor: Court-Overtime Pay as the Main Determinant for Discretionary Police Arrests.” The American Society of Criminology Conference Annual Meeting. St. Louis. November 2008.
• “The Wire: Drugs, Prison and Community Survival.” John Jay College of Criminal Justice. New York City. September 2008.
• Goldstock Criminal Law Luncheon. New York University. September 2008.
• “Police Officers’ Attitude Toward Drugs and Arrest Decision: the United States and the Netherlands.” International Conference: Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies. San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 2008.
• “Rapid Response in High-Drug Areas: a misuse of police patrol.” Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security. Istanbul, Turkey. June 2007.
• Bloods, Crips, and Beyond: Anti-Gang Initiatives from Cities to Suburbs. Princeton University. April 2006.
• “Hell Freezing Over: Broken Windows and Police Action Reclaiming NYC’s Port Authority Bus Terminal.” The American Society of Criminology Conference Annual Meeting. Toronto. November 2005.
• “Police Training for Effective Counter-Terrorism.” Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security. Istanbul, Turkey. June 2005.
• “Participant P.O. Field Work.” Philadelphia Ethnography Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 2005.
• “Police, Drugs, and Arrest Discretion.” Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting. Chicago. March 2005.
• “Police in the ’Hood.” The Millsaps Faith and Work Initiative. Sponsored by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology. Millsaps College. Jackson, Mississippi. April 2004.
• “Public Health, Policing, and Law Enforcement: The Case of HIV/AIDS Prevention.” The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Yale University. November 2003.
• “Police and Race in Baltimore.” The Aage Sørensen Memorial Conference. Stockholm University. March 2003.
• “The Failure of 911 Rapid Police Response.” Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting. Boston. March 2003.
• “Two Shades Of Blue: Racial Distinctions within a Common Police Identity.” The American Society of Criminology Conference Annual Meeting. Chicago. November 2002.
• “Vaksurveillance en Ordehandhaving [Beat Patrol and Order Maintenance],” translated into Dutch by Sjaak Aussems. Politieburo Prinsengracht. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 1998.
• “Community Policing and Crime Prevention in America and Holland.” The Center for Police Studies, Departments of Criminal law and Criminology of the Law, Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. December 1997.
• “Changes in the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the U.S. from the 1920s to the 1990s” (with Chris Winship and Steve Morgan). IRP Summer Research Workshop: Problems of the Low-Income Population. Madison, Wisconsin. June 1996.

TEACHING
• CJBS 415. Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
• CRJ 711, Issues in Criminal Justice, Corrections and Police: Fall 2023 (NYPD Executive Master’s Program), Spring 2020, Fall 2019 (NYPD Executive Master’s Program), Spring 2019, Fall 2018 (2 sections: 1 NYPD Executive Master’s Program), Spring 2018, Fall 2017 (2 sections: 1 online section, 1 NYPD Executive Master’s Program), Spring 2017 (NYPD Executive Master’s Program), Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 (2 sections), Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005.
• CRJ 717, Readings in Research: Spring 2023 (NYPD Executive Master’s Program).
• PSC 401, Seminar in Police Problems: Fall 2016 (2 sections), Spring 2016 (2 sections), Fall 2015, Spring 2014 (2 sections), Fall 2013 (2 section), Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 (2 sections), Spring 2010 (2 sections), Fall 2009 (2 sections), Spring 2009 (2 section), Fall 2008 (2 sections), Spring 2008 (2 sections), Fall 2007 (2 sections), Spring 2005, Fall 2004 (2 sections).
• CJBS 101, American Criminal Justice, Writing Intensive: Spring 2013.
• SSJ 203 (Equivalent to PSC 101), Introduction to Policing (LaGuardia Community College): Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009.
• CRJ 101, Introduction to Criminal Justice: Spring 2013, Fall 2006, Spring 2005.
• CRJ 742, Police Ethics: Spring 2006.
• CRJ 757, Police and the Community: Fall 2007, Fall 2005.
• PSC 101, Introduction to Policing: Spring 2005, Fall 2004.
• SOC 101, Introduction to Sociology: Teaching Fellow, Harvard University. Fall 1998.
• CUNY Writing Intensive Certified, Spring 2012

SERVICE
University, College, Departmental, and Public Service:
• Board of Trustees, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. 2024 – ongoing.
• Chair, Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration. 2018 – 2021.
• Director of the NYPD Executive Master’s Police Leadership Program. Spring 2017 – ongoing.
• Advisor and primary reader for 10 students’ completed master’s theses.
• Advisor and second reader for 4 students’ PhD theses.
• Departmental Grades Appeal Committee. 2006 – 2011, 2012 – 2014, 2017 – 2019.
• Class guest speaker at BMCC. 2015, 2016, 2018.
• Criminal Justice Major student advisor. 2015 – 2016.
• Department Curriculum Committee. 2015 – 2021.
• University search committee for the position of Director, Educational Partnerships and General Education. 2015-2016.
• Police-Science Major revision. 2013 – 2014.
• Departmental Personnel and Budget Committee. 2012 – 2014.
• CUNY Justice Academy Faculty Liaison. 2012 – 2018.
• John Jay College / LaGuardia Community College 2+2 Faculty Teaching Exchange. 2009 – 2015.
• Predictive Validity of the GRE for Admissions Subcommittee. 2009.
• Police Studies Major Assessment 2009–2012.
• Extensive student tutoring on fundamental English grammar 2010 – ongoing.
• Library Committee. 2007 – 2008.
• Founder and organizer of the Department of Law and Police Science Faculty Research Salon. 2009 – 2013.
• Departmental ad hoc subcommittee to formulate departmental bylaws. 2008.
• Departmental Reexamination and Formation of Strategic Plan for the Police Studies Program. 2007.
• Police Studies Major Coordinator. 2006 – 2008.
• Faculty Technology Committee. 2004 – 2013.
• Founding and sole member of department’s unofficial Arts and Crafts Committee.

INVITED GUEST SPEAKERS
• Jim Quinn, Fall 2024
• Louis Anemone, Fall 2023.
• Mark A.R. Kleiman, Fall 2017. New York University.
• Michael Jacobson, Spring 2017. Former NYC Probation and Correction Commissioner.
• Dan Baum, Fall 2012. Author of Smoke and Mirrors, Nine Lives, and Gun Guys.
• Leon van Taylor, Fall 2012. Baltimore Police Officer (retired).
• Peter de Graaf, Spring 2011. Politie Amsterdam-Amstelland.
• Jennifer Wynn, Spring 2010. Author of Inside Rikers
• Brandon Del Pozo, Spring 2010. NYPD Commanding Officer, 50th Precinct.
• Diego Gambetta, Fall 2009. Author of Code of the Underworld.
• Joseph Poss, Spring 2008. Author of Brooklyn Bounce.
• Jeff Marshall, Fall 2007, Spring 2010, Fall 2013. Nassau County Detective.
• Ad Clarijs, Fall 2007. Public prosecutor. The Netherlands.
• Derrick Parker, Fall 2006. New York’s one and only “hip-hop cop.” Author of Notorious C.O.P.
• Barry Gibbs, Spring 2006. Framed by the “Mafia Cops,” Barry Gibbs served 18 years for a murder he didn’t commit.
• Steven Hughes, Spring 2006. NYPD Commanding Officer, 10th Precinct.
• Stacy Horn, Fall 2005 . Author of the The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City’s Cold Case Squad.
• David Klinger, Spring 2005. Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Author of Into The Kill Zone: A Cop’s Eye View of Deadly Force.
• Judge James Gray, Spring 2005. Superior Court Judge of Orange County California. Speaker for LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
• Naill Featherstone, Fall 2004. An Garda Síochána, Ireland’s National Police Service.

LEARNING TOOLS FOR STUDENTS:
Four writing guides: “Formatting Papers,” and, as needed, “Academic Writing Style,” “Academic Sources,” and Grammar 101.

RESEARCH GRANTS
• Faculty Liaison for Faculty Development Project, part of $3.7 million U.S. Department of Education cooperative grant (John Jay College’s Allocation $1,106,321) for Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program.
• $4,000 grant from the PSC-CUNY Research Award to study the relationship between drug policy, police culture, and arrests in the Netherlands and the United States.
• $18,000 grant from the Niarchos Foundation to co-author the third edition of the book Greek Americans with the author of the first two editions, Professor Charles Moskos of Northwestern University.

BLOG, PODCAST, AND TECHNOLOGICAL WORKS
• Violence Reduction Project. 2021. A website collection of essays on violence reduction.
• QualityPolicing.com 2023- / CopintheHood.com. 2007 – 2022. 2,600 posts. Around 30,000 monthly pageviews (February 2017). Cited in Research Ethics (2011, Vol.7:4.120-31). The Washington Post, March 15, 2016. Cited “Top 50 Criminal Justice Blogs,” by Criminal Justice Degree Schools. Cited “Top 20 Criminal Justice Blogs” by Excite Education.
• “Justice for Malcolm” (2018). Interactive video simulation of a crisis in police management and leadership. Production design, recording, and editing.
• Quality Policing Podcast. 2017 – today. With Nick Selby and Leon Taylor. Podcast bringing a reasoned and informed perspective to discussions about policing. The podcast seeks to engage in meaningful and respectfully opinionated discussion

MEDIA APPEARANCES (selected)
• What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein. “Whipping in the Public Square.” September 7, 2024.
• Just Asking Questions. “What Does Good Policing Look Like.” ReasonTV. March 21, 2024.
• Unlicensed Philosophy with Chuong Nguyen. September 13, 2023.
• The Unspeakable Podcast with Meghan Daum. “How Are We Feeling About Policing These Days? Peter Moskos Files A Report.” February 27, 2023.
• The Glenn Show. “The Killing of Tyre Nichols | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter & Peter Moskos.” February 11, 2023.
• “What We Know about the Crime Spoke.” City Journal podcast with Rafael Mangual. July 25, 2022.
• MSNBC. All in With Chris Hayes. “Do we want more police? Or less police? And what should they be doing?” April 14, 2022.
• “‘Vile, Filthy Greeks‘ — The 1909 Anti-Greek Riots in Omaha.” National Herald. April 9-15, 2022.
• At The Crossroads. “‘You Have to Crack Down on Gun Offenders’: A Conversation with Peter Moskos.” By Greg Berman. Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. January 20, 2022.
• The Glenn Show. “Police Defunding and its Discontents.” Bloggingheads.tv. August 24, 2020.
• Check Your Bias. “On Law Enforcement in America, Part 2: On Law Enforcement, Journalism, and Politics.” August 21, 2020.
• Check Your Bias. “On Law Enforcement in America, Part 1.” August 21, 2020.
• The Unspeakable Podcast: A podcast by Meghan Daum. “Can we get smarter about policing?” August 17, 2020.
• Like Trees Walking by Dave Berge. “Refund the Police.” August 12, 2020.
• The Dan Proft Show. August 4, 2020.
• “The Protests Were Whiter Than the Police Department.” Spiked (UK). July 27, 2020.
• Voice of America, Russia. Полиция в поисках поддержки. (“Police Looking for Support”). July 17, 2020.
• Culturally Determined by Aryeh Cohen-Wade. Blogginheads.tv. “What are cops thinking?” June 15, 2020.
• Bloggingheads TV with Glenn Loury. “Crime, Justice, and Reform.” December 23, 2019.
• Business Insider. “Trump’s suggestion that troops at the border shoot migrants in the legs is illegal and ‘bats–t crazy’.” By Ellen Ioanes. October 4, 2019.
• BBC World Service. “Newsday.” August 30, 2019.
• The New Yorker. “Good Morning, Moon.” By Henry Alford. March 25, 2019.
• KPCC (LA Public Radio). AirTalk with Larry Mantle. “What is a fair standard racially and ethnically for gang injunction traffic stops?” February 7, 2019.
• NPR. “3 Chicago Officers Accused In A Police Cover-Up To Learn Their Fate.” January 17, 2019.
• WBAL (Baltimore). Brett Hollander Show. January 15, 2019.
• KUOW (Seattle). “Here’s what a criminal justice expert saw in the SPD New Year’s Eve shooting footage.” January 4, 2019.
• “Of Two Minds.” OfTwoMinds.org. August 2018.
• “Problem Areas with Wyatt Cenac.” HBO April – June 2018.
• “Time: The Kalief Browder Story.” Episode 3 (35 min). Directed by Jenner Furst. 2017.
• NPR All Things Considered. “Baltimore Police Overhaul Challenged by Murder Crisis.” October 21, 2017.
• Featured in Princeton Alumni Weekly. March 1, 2017.
• NPR Morning Edition. “Authorities Hope To Avoid Knee-Jerk Reaction To Crime Stats.” February 15, 2017.
• Bloggingheads TV with Glenn Loury. “What about Trump?” February 3, 2017.
• “Incarceration US.” Directed by Regan Hines. 2016.
• NPR.org. What Went Wrong — A Police Video Deconstructed. October 18, 2016.
• tbseFM This Morning. 시사및정치, 경제. Seoul, South Korea. October 4, 2016.
• Bloggingheads TV with Glenn Loury. “Police-Involved Shootings.” July 12, 2016.
• “TIME talks to Peter Moskos about policing protocol, traffics, and shootings.” July 7, 2016.
• NPR All Things Considered. “Police Shootings Highlight Risks for African-Americans Who Carry Guns.” July 7, 2016.
• NPR The Two-Way. “Murder Trial Begins for Officer Who Drove Van in Freddie Gray Case.” June 9, 2016.
• NPR. “Police Expert: Tasers Should Be used Only When Suspects Are Threats.” Weekend Edition Sunday. January 3, 2016.
• MSNBC. All in With Chris Hayes. “Quentin Tarantino responds to controversy.” November 5, 2015.
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Introduction to Radley Balko’s talk: Rise of the Warrior Cop. November 5, 2015.
• WNYC. Brian Lehrer. “When Does Demanding Police Accountability Become Dangerous Rhetoric?” November 4, 2015.
• MSNBC. All in With Chris Hayes. “Is ‘the Ferguson Effect’ real?” October 27, 2015.
• Fox News. The O’Reilly Factor. “Violence growing in America.” October 7, 2015.
• MSNBC. All in With Chris Hayes. “Do ‘Black Lives Matters’ protests lead to more violence?” September 2, 2015.
• Fox News. The O’Reilly Factor. “Is there an epidemic of violence against police in America?” September 1, 2015. Noted in Media Matters, Salon, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos.
• NPR. On the Media. “Years of Talk in One Conversation.” July 17, 2015.
• WNYC. #RadioTalksRace Roundtable. July 16, 2015
• WNYC Radio Talks Race: A Multi-City Roundtable. July 8, 2015
• KPCC (LA Public Radio). AirTalk with Larry Mantle. “Criminologist asks if LA crime spike worthy trade-off for fair sentencing policies.” July 9, 2015.
• WNYC. Brian Lehrer. Radio Talks Race: A Multi-City Roundtable. July 8, 2015.
• Bloggingheads TV with Glenn Loury. June 15, 2015.
• MSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes. “Rising Crime.” June 3, 2015.
• The Takeaway with John Hockenberry (Public Radio International). “For Better or Worse, Officer Back Down as Citizens Take a Stand.” June 3, 2015.
• KPCC (LA Public Radio). AirTalk with Larry Mantle. “Baltimore sees most violent month of record.” June 1, 2015.
• Fox News. Fox and Friends. May 1, 2015.
• Fox News. The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson. May 1, 2015.
• MSNBC. Morning Joe. May 1, 2015.
• NBC. The Rundown with Jose Diaz-Balart. May 1, 2015.
• CNN. Brooke Baldwin. May 1, 2015.
• MSNBC. The Cycle. May 1, 2015.
• KPCC (LA Public Radio). AirTalk with Larry Mantle. “Freddie Gray’s death: officers face charges.” May 1, 2015.
• NPR. All Things Considered. “Drawing Parallels Between New York City and Baltimore.” April 28, 2015.
• The Takeaway with John Hockenberry (Public Radio International). “Baltimore Pushed to The Brink.” April 27, 2015.
• C-SPAN. “Washington Journal.” Police Shootings in the U.S. April 26, 2015.
• WILS (Lansing, MI). Capital City Recap with Michael Cohen. April 17, 2015.
• MSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes. Reserve Deputy Sheriffs. April 15, 2015.
• CNN’s Erin Burnett. Outfront. April 13, 2015.
• MSNBC. Live with Thomas Roberts. April 13, 2015.
• Mo’Kelly Show. “Cops Don’t Think Walter Scott’s death is another Ferguson.” KFI (Los Angeles). April 12, 2015.
• Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield. CNN. April 9, 2015.
• “What’s going on with American policing?” NieuwsUur (Netherlands). April 8, 2015.
• KPCC (LA Public Radio). AirTalk with Larry Mantle. “Civilians’ right to record police activity.” March 6, 2015.
• Central Time. Wisconsin Public Radio. March 4, 2015.
• “Community Experts Discuss NYC Policing, Race Relations, Mayor de Blasio.” National Herald. February 14-20, 2015.
• MSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes. De Blasio and the NYPD. January 5, 2015.
• NPR. All Things Considered. “Trial of Polygraph Critic Renews Debate Over Tests’ Accuracy.” January 2, 2015.
• “Mayors Wrestle With How To Support Police And Grieving Residents.” Morning Edition (NPR). December 23, 2014.
• CNN Tonight. December 22, 2014.
• MSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes. Police. December 22, 2014.
• “Drawing police lessons from Ferguson may not be clear cut.” WYPR. November 28, 2014.
• “‘Enough is enough’: US anti-racism protests.” Al Jazeera. December 14, 2014.
• “Don’t Shoot.” The Economist. December 13, 2014.
• MSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes. Ferguson. November 26, 2014.
• MSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes. S.C. bad-shooting trooper arrested. September 25, 2014.
• “Greek of the Week” (New Greek TV). September 12, 2014.
• All In With Chris Hayes. (Ferguson.) MSNBC. August 25, 2014.
• The Project (Australia). March 28, 2014.
• 3AW Mornings with Neil Mitchell (Australia). March 16, 2014.
• 2GB “The Chris Smith Afternoon Show” (Australia). February 21, 2014.
• 2UE Drive with Justin Smith (Australia). February 16, 2014.
• Sunday Night Safran (Australia). February 9, 2014.
• Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd. January 31, 2014.
• Weekend Sunrise (Australia). November 9, 2013.
• RN Drive (Australia). November 1, 2013.
• Lateline (Australia). November 1, 2013.
• The Project (Australia). November 1, 2013.
• NPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. “Some Judges Prefer Public Shaming to Prison.” August 24, 2013.
• Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd. June 13, 2013.
• MSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes. June 5, 2013.
• “Breaking the Taboo” (“Quebrando o Tabu”). With Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Fernando Cardoso, and Jorge Casteneda. Directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade. Narrated by Morgan Freeman. 2012.
• MSNBC. Up With Chris Hayes. December 16, 2012.
• Daily Princetonian. April 23, 2012.
• Geeze Magazine. Spring 2012.
• The Marc Steiner Show. WEAA (Baltimore). March 6, 2012.
• Hot 97 Street Soldiers with Lisa Evers. February 26, 2012.
• Power & Politics with Evan Solomon. CBC (Canada). February 22, 2012.
• Up With Chris Hayes. MSNBC. February 18, 2012.
• BBC Radio 4. January 26, 2012.
• “Greektown: Astoria.” Documentary by Nikos Panoutsopoulos. Broadcast on NET/ERT (Greek Television). 2011.
• Mike McConnell Show. WGN (Chicago). November 3, 2011.
• The Barry Morgan Show. CJAD (Montreal). November 2, 2011.
• Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd. August 26, 2011.
• CJOB (Winnipeg). August 9, 2011.
• Newstalk Radio (Ireland). July 19, 2011.
• WUER (Salt Lake City NPR). July 19, 2011.
• Época (Brazil). July 15, 2011.
• KGO (Gil Gross Program, ABC News Radio). July 19, 2011.
• WVON (Chicago). July 11, 2011.
• CNN, “Stream Team with Fredricka Whitfield.” June 30, 2011.
• KWGS (Tulsa NPR). June 29, 2011.
• “The C4 Show.” WBAL (Baltimore). June 28, 2011.
• Salon.com, “Could Flogging solve our prison crisis?” by Mandy Van Deven. June 20, 2011.
• KERA (North Texas Public Radio). June 22, 2011.
• Charles Adler Show, Sun News Network (Canada). June 20, 2011
• Nightside with Dan Rea, WBZ (Boston). June 17, 2011.
• The Current (Canadian Broadcast Corporation). June 15, 2011.
• The Joy Cardin Show (Wisconsin Public Radio/NPR). June 15, 2011.
• KPCC (LA Public Radio). AirTalk with Larry Mantle. “In Defense of Flogging.” June 13, 2011.
• Cultural Baggage, hosted by Dean Beaker. June 12, 2011.
• Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd. June 10, 2011.
• David Sirota, KKZN (Denver). June 3, 2011
• Pete Conlin, WOR (New York). June 3, 2011.
• The Alan Colmes Show. Fox News Radio. June 1, 2011.
• Brian Lehrer, WNYC. “A Modest Criminal Justice Proposal.” June 1, 2011.
• The Takeaway with John Hockenberry (Public Radio International). “Is Flogging Better Than Prison.” May 31, 2011.
• ABC (Australian Broadcast Company), May 30, 2011.
• Metro. Peter Moskos: Flogging versus Prison. May 30, 2011.
• CNN Newsroom with Drew Griffin, May 29, 2011.
• CNN. In the Arena. “Criminologist Peter Moskos: Give offenders a choice–prison or FLOGGING (he’s serious).” May 24, 2011.
• The Economist.com. “A revival of flogging?” April 25, 2011.
• “The Cop Doc Radio Show.” Dr. Richard Weinblatt. October 21, 2010.
• “Sex, Drugs and Civil Liberties.” Dan Viets. KOPN (Columbia, MO). December 22, 2009.
• “The Faith Middleton Show.” WNPR Connecticut Public Broadcasting. October 30, 2009.
• “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” CNN. October 22, 2009.
• “The Moral of the Story, The Ethicist’s take on the news: Good Cops, Bad Cops… and Bad Emmys.” By Randy Cohen. The New York Times Sunday Magazine. September 14, 2009.
• “Pete and Jan in the Afternoon.” WRJN (Racine, WI). August 28, 2009.
• “Montel Across America.” Air America. August 27, 2009.
• “Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast.” WYPR (Baltimore Public Radio). Recorded August 26, 2009.
• “Conversations with Carlos Watson.” MSNBC. August 19, 2009
• “The Ron Smith Show.” WBAL (Baltimore). August 18, 2009.
• “The John Brown Show.” KTRS (St. Louis). August 18, 2009
• “The C4 Show.” WBAL (Baltimore). August 3, 2009.
• “Executive Order: A Mayoral Strategy for Traffic Safety.” Transportation Alternatives. New York City Hall Press Conference. July 14, 2009.
• “Century of Lies” with Dean Becker. KPFT (Houston). June 29, 2009
• “Extension 720” with Milt Rosenberg. Cop in the Hood. WGN (Chicago). June 19, 2009.
• Oakland BART shooting. WABC (San Francisco). January 9, 2008.
• “Race, Inner Cities, and the Drug War.” Students for Sensible Drug Policy Tenth Annual Conference. November 2008.
• Non-Motivational Speaker Series. October 23, 2008.
• Cop in the Hood. CUNY TV (New York). October 15, 2008.
• ACJS Today. “Cop in the Hood.” Book review by Monica J. Massey. October 2008.
• “The World Famous Phil Hendrie Show” (Los Angeles). October 1, 2008.
• Baltimore Book Festival. Radical Bookfair Pavilion. September 27, 2008.
• Baltimore Book Festival. Literary Salon. September 27, 2008.
• Baltimore Highlandtown Library. September 27, 2008.
• Financial Times. “First Person: Peter Moskos.” Profile by Ed Hammond. August 30, 2008.
• Vanity Fair. “Q&A: The Ivy Leaguer Who Took on Prop Joe.” Profile by Jordan Heller. August 26, 2008.
• CUNY radio’s “Book Beat Podcast.” August 22, 2008.
• “The Drug Truth Network: Cultural Baggage.” KPFT (Houston). August 20, 2008.
• “Kicking the Anthill.” KLUP (San Antonio). August 16, 2008.
• “Midday with Don Rodricks.” WYPR (Baltimore Public Radio). August 11, 2008. Rebroadcast August 4, 2009.
• “The Ron Smith Show.” WBAL (Baltimore). August 11, 2008.
• “Jeff Farias.” KPHX (Phoenix). July 30, 2008.
• “The Ed Norris Show.” WHFS (Baltimore.) July 29, 2008.
• “Leonard Lopate Show.” WNYC (New York Public Radio). July 22, 2008. Rebroadcast October 13, 2008.
• Wall Street Journal. “A Close Look at Mean Streets.” Book review by Daniel Horan. July 14, 2008.
• “The Ron Smith Show.” WBAL (Baltimore). June 17, 2008.
• “The Ron Smith Show.” WBAL (Baltimore). May 13, 2008.
• “On Point” with Tom Ashbrook. Cop in the Hood. National Public Radio. April 30, 2008.
• “Talk of the Nation” with Neal Conan. Sean Bell Verdict May Deepen Mistrust of Police. National Public Radio. April 29, 2008.
• “Bloggingheads TV.” Cop in the Hood. April 14, 2008.
• Reading for Podcast of Randy Cohen’s New York Times Magazine column, “The Ethicist.” April 4, 2008.
• “Fox News Live” with Jamie Colby. Fox TV. The Militarization of Police. May 12, 2007.
• “Talk of the Nation” with Neal Conan. Examining the Causes of Witness Intimidation. National Public Radio. May 1, 2007.
• “Brian Lehrer Show.” Stop Snitching? WNYC (New York Public Radio). February 24, 2006.
• “Freedom Rings.” The Case for Drug Legalization. WRMN October 31, 2005.

HONORS
• Senor Fellow of the Urban Ethnography Project, Yale University. 2014 –.
• Certificate of Appreciation from John Jay College for “Guidance and Encouragement of (2) Dean’s List students.” October 2013.
• Students’ writing accepted in John Jay’s Finest publication of best undergraduate writing. 2013, 2016.
• Certificate of Appreciation from John Jay College for “guidance and encouragement of Dean’s List students.” October 2012.
• In Defense of Flogging:“Favorite Books of the Year.” Mother Jones. 2011.
• Atlantic Magazine’s “Brave Thinkers.” 2011.
• In Defense of Flogging. Reviewed in The Economist. June 23, 2011.
• John Jay College/Bramshill NPIA Exchange Scholar. Fall 2011.
• CopintheHood.com awarded “Top 50 Criminal Justice Blogs,” by Criminal Justice Degree Schools, 2010.
• Cop in the Hood: Winner of the American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Best Book in Sociology. 2008.
• CUNY “Salute to Scholars” Certificate of Recognition. December 2008.
• CUNY Graduate Program in Anthropology Colloquia Series. October 17, 2008.
• Invitation and travel grant to attend the Aage Sørensen Memorial Conference. Stockholm, Sweden. March 2003.
• Baltimore Sun op-ed cited in Petition for Rehearing (denied), submitted to US Supreme Court, 99-1408 Atwater, et al. v. Lago Vista, Texas, et al. June 2001.
• Baltimore Police Department Special Service Commendation Medal. March 2001.
• City of Baltimore Citizen Citation. April 2000.
• Harvard University Scholarship. 1995 – 1997.
• Isadore Brown Thesis Award for Best Sociology Thesis, Princeton University. 1994.
• Magna Cum Laude, Princeton University. 1994.
• Princeton University Hellenic Studies’ Seegar Grant for study in Greece. 1993.

RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE
• Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration. 2004 – (Assistant Professor 2004 – 2012; Associate 2013-2018; Full 2018 –).
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. 2024 –.
• Senior Fellow, Yale Urban Ethnography Project. 2014 –.
• Faculty, CUNY Doctorial Program in Criminal Justice. 2014 – 2015.
• Contributing Editor for the Policing Section of ACJS. 2011 – 2013.
• Volunteer lecture at the Fortune Society to support successful reentry from prison. April 2011.
• Faculty, CUNY Doctoral Program in Sociology. 2009 –.
• LaGuardia Community College Department of Social Science. 2009 –.
• Baltimore City Police Officer. August 1999 – July 2001. Eastern District, uniformed patrol from April 2000.
Participant-observation field work, interviews, and panel-study questionnaire.
Certified in Less Lethal Weaponry and as a Maryland Medical First Responder.
• Vera Institute of Justice. Consultant on New York Police Department community relations memo. December 2002.
• Pieter Aertszstraat Police Station, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Participant-observation field work and evaluation of the program, “Cops Without Cars” (Blauw uit Blik). October 1997 – August 1998.
• Volunteer speaker for LEAP, Law Enforcement Action Partnership (formerly Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). 2002 – 2015.
• Speaker/liaison for the New York Academy of Medicine. Authored and presented to Harlem Police Precincts on the Expanded Syringe Access Demonstration Program (ESAP). Spring 2003.

Non-academic work experience
• Founder, boat captain. St. Nicolaas Boat Club of Amsterdam. 1997 – 2014.
• Waiter: Olé Mexican Grill (Cambridge). 1998-1999.
• Waiter: Radius (Boston). 1998.
• “Utility boy” (glorified busboy): Salamander (Cambridge). 1995 – 1998.
• Bar tender, bar manager, Boom Cafe, Boom Chicago (Amsterdam). 1994 – 1996.
• Sound and light technician, Boom Chicago (Amsterdam). 1994 – 1996.
• Food server and kitchen help: Terrace Club (Princeton). 1993-1994.
• Food server: Tower Club (Princeton). 1992-1993.
• Waiter: Papagus (Chicago). 1991.
• Waiter: Prospect House (Princeton). 1990-1991.
• Valet parker: (for one horrible day at the Peacock Inn, Princeton) 1990.
• Busboy and Waiter: Va Pensiero (Evanston), 1989 – 1991.
• Usher: Wrigley Field/Chicago Cubs. 1988.
• Usher: Evanston Movie Theatres. 1986 – 1988.

Honorable Mentions!
• Chinatown “dumpling expert.” Time Out New York. Circa 2004.
• New York magazine approval Matrix. In Defense of Flogging.
• Quoted as saying, “Moussaka is the soccer of Greek cuisine.” Al Jazeera. 2014.
• “How to remove Joe Buck from your life.” Chicago Reader. 2016.
• Chicago Cubs Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in Crowd Management. 1988.
• Photo credits in professional literature and travel publications.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• PEN America
• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3476-364X