(Paperback, Revised edition)

When the author, a Harvard-trained sociologist, left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street - the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence. This book reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift.

(Paperback)

"Compelling... outrageous... by the end of In Defence of Flogging, Moskos might just have you convinced."-Salon.com