Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District is a book written in 2008 by a former Baltimore police officer, Peter Moskos.

In this book Peter describes his one-year working in Baltimore's Eastern District.

Moskos, a Harvard graduate student raised in a white middle class liberal household, describes his first hand experiences with poverty and violent crime in Baltimore's roughest police district,[1] which encompassed a virtually all African American ghetto of East Baltimore.

[2] In the book, Moskos argues in favor of reforming the criminal justice system and the legalization of drugs.

After Moskos graduated from Harvard, he became a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he currently teaches.