While reading this book did you think it would’ve been so interesting? Well I didn’t, I started reading and soon I was almost done the book. I have writing in my book, highlighting marks anything possible to get my point across and to understand certain sections. The most interesting chapter in this book was chapter 3 which was about, how junkies aka addicts are people to and have jobs in the drug trade. They may be low on the totem pole but they are used for the operation and not to get the bigger guys caught. Also, in this chapter they speak on the neighborhood lango and how they have to learn it so they can understand the community people. Peter Moskos explained how he said “police” in his natural accent and the little girl didn’t understand
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The academy has many parts that the soon to be police officers have to learn about but is it all necessary to become a cop. Peter wants you to believe that the academy is important when its actually not. While in the police academy they got a run of three subjects in a sense. They learn about how to write their reports, the laws and physical training. Before reading this book I never would’ve thought they had to learn much about report writing because it seemed so easy and simple to do. but in all actuality they need to know which report to write, how to write it and when its needed. The ins and outs of the academy are basic. They want their men and women more like the military. They have to say yes sir/ ma’am; no sir/ ma’am everything is so formal. They have a few military tactics they may use. Fast forward to the end of the academy, once they are finished all their training and lessons to be taught the academy is seen as less effective. Peter Moskos explains: “By the end of the academy, less than half the class saw a relation between what police learn in the academy and what police need to know on the streets.” (24) The academy is like preschool, something that you don’t need to help you learn. When in the academy it didn’t say much about them being on the streets and actually getting the experience. Yeah they got instructors to tell them about it but if you don’t have the proper training to do so you can mess up in a quick
The academy has many parts that the soon to be police officers have to learn about but is it all necessary to become a cop. Peter wants you to believe that the academy is important when its actually not. While in the police academy they got a run of three subjects in a sense. They learn about how to write their reports, the laws and physical training. Before reading this book I never would’ve thought they had to learn much about report writing because it seemed so easy and simple to do. but in all actuality they need to know which report to write, how to write it and when its needed. The ins and outs of the academy are basic. They want their men and women more like the military. They have to say yes sir/ ma’am; no sir/ ma’am everything is so formal. They have a few military tactics they may use. Fast forward to the end of the academy, once they are finished all their training and lessons to be taught the academy is seen as less effective. Peter Moskos explains: “By the end of the academy, less than half the class saw a relation between what police learn in the academy and what police need to know on the streets.” (24) The academy is like preschool, something that you don’t need to help you learn. When in the academy it didn’t say much about them being on the streets and actually getting the experience. Yeah they got instructors to tell them about it but if you don’t have the proper training to do so you can mess up in a quick