Peter Moskos

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The Violence Reduction Project: Finding solutions to the surge in violent crime blighting America

Violence Reduction Project

1st February 2021

Professor Peter Moskos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City

FEATURE: Against a backdrop of unprecedented rising violence in 2020 – with murders across the biggest 65 cities in the US increasing collectively by a third – Professor Peter Moskos, a former Baltimore police officer, launched the Violence Reduction Project; in this first in a series of essays from practitioners, experts and academics, he highlights the aims of the Project, and the need for urgent action.

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Professor Peter Moskos (A.B. Princeton, PhD Harvard) is chairperson of the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He is the director of John Jay College’s NYPD Executive Master’s Program and a former Baltimore City Police Officer. In addition to his primary duties at John Jay College, Moskos is a faculty member in CUNY’s Doctoral Program in Sociology, has taught introductory criminal justice classes at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, and is a Senior Fellow of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project. He is the founder of the Violence Reduction Project. Prof Moskos studies people the old-fashioned way: He talks to them. His three books – 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, CNN, Macleans, Pacific Standard, Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and his blog, copinthehood.com.