Before getting his PhD from Harvard, Peter Moskos served as a cop in the Eastern District of Baltimore. Moskos has written extensively on issues related to policing, crime, prisons, and reform. You can find his work at copinthehood.com and buy his books Cop In the Hood and In Defense of Flogging on Amazon.com

Here we talk about issues related to policing that have arisen since the killing of George Floyd and broader political and ideological challenges in this particular moment.