How To Solve Crime - Peter Moskos on New York City’s policing triumph

The Unspeakable Podcast

Meghan Daum

Society & Culture

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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GUEST BIO

Peter Moskos teaches in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Moskos, a Princeton and Harvard-trained sociologist, is a former Baltimore City Police Officer and is the director of John Jay College’s NYPD Executive Master’s Leadership Program.

Also, check out Peter’s previous Unspeakable interviews:

Can We Get Smarter About Policing? A conversation with Professor of Police Science (and former Baltimore cop) Peter Moskos: https://bit.ly/3H0209F

How Are We Feeling About Policing These Days? https://bit.ly/4ms8rCP

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0:00.0	Why would you want to become part of an evil organization?
0:03.3	You shouldn't.
0:04.3	And so the narrative that has been dominant for just about 10 years now,
0:10.2	though I think the pendulum is swinging back a bit,
0:12.3	the narrative, you know, you saw people with signs in 2020 saying,
0:15.2	quit your job.
0:15.9	Well, a lot did.
0:17.2	You know, happy now?
0:18.0	How did that make things better?
0:22.9	Welcome to the unspeakable podcast. I'm your host, Megan Down. Before I introduce my guest,
0:28.5	Peter Moskos, I just want to say a couple of things regarding the podcast. First of all,
0:34.4	I want to thank you for your patience over these last few weeks and months.
0:38.7	As you probably noticed, I'm experimenting with a couple of different things, the format of the podcast.
0:45.6	I have added live streams on the Substack platform.
0:50.0	If you are a paying subscriber, you know that the way you support the podcast is through
0:56.8	Substack, where you get all kinds of extra stuff, bonus content.
1:00.9	You can read my writing, various things going on there.
1:05.6	Substack is encouraging us, and rightfully so, because it's fun, to do live streams. And that means that
1:14.0	we sort of set up our phones once a week or so and talk to you guys directly and the audience
1:21.9	interact with you. There's a chat. And I have been doing that under the banner of the unspeak-easy live. This podcast is called
1:33.0	the unspeakable. This thing is called the unspeak-easy. I am slowly rebranding this whole thing
1:39.5	so that this is the unspeak-easy podcast because I think we've kind of moved past unspeakable times
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