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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Come for the food. Stay for the spa! (Shame they poop in the pool.)

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The common pigeon (rock dove) is unusual for birds because they're not real wild. Deep down they want to be with us and domestic and taken care of again! They all come from domesticated stock. They're feral. Here's a beautiful recent arrival I'm trying to win over.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Bird wings are so fucking cool. This bird is very young.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I don't know what else to use Bluesky for. This is Penelope. My favorite pigeon since 2020.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The % of shooting victims in NYC who are Black or Hispanic is 96%, and it has varied very little—even as total numbers have changed. This racial disparity exists year after year after year. It’s amazing how few are aware. (Or purposefully ignored it in related public policy and police discussions).

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I was out shoveling show for the city of New York during the blizzards. You're welcome. It was both miserable and very satisfying work from 8pm to 4am.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Want more pigeons? I've decided to turn my (previously never used) instagram account into a pigeonfluencer extravaganza. www.instagram.com/nycpigeonflu...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I'll be on Katie Couric's substack live at 5:30PM eastern (1 hour from now) substack.com/@katiecouric

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I see other people saying the story isn't a big deal (Nichols points out it was the 5pm CNN lead story) and besides, in classic gaslighting, nobody is even supporting disrupting religious services.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Charts I made of the homicide rate for whites and blacks, going back to 1968. (2025 is an estimate)

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Cool. Look who is tops on the "Urban Optimist Holiday Gift Guide"? My book! Back from the Brink. It does indeed make a great stocking stuffer. Buy it right now, before you forget! amzn.to/48wt2j5 p.s. It's good for pessimists, too! www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Bill Bratton came in to speak to my master's program today. Three legends and me. John Miller, Bill Bratton, Chauncey Parker. This was a good class.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

"Rates of imprisonment have grown dramatically in the last 40 years." What a fabulously hilarious progressive spin on their own data/chart which shows NY incarceration rates in massive decline over the past 30 years! www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/NY....

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

For what it's worth, answering this question is kind of the foundational point of "Back from the Brink" (which happens to be a great read). amzn.to/47U4Kk9

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

For those who insist poverty is the driving force behind crime and violence, please answer me this: From 1990 to 2000, NYC saw a 20.5% increase in people living in poverty (a 10% increase in rate). 283,994 more people! How did murders simultaneously drop by two-thirds in 1990s NYC?

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Your occasional reminder that in NYC the vast majority of criminal cases are not prosecuted. In the Bronx just 22% of felony and 12% of misdemeanor arrests result in a conviction. (Outside NYC, in the rest of the state, the figures are 67% and 52%, respectively.) qualitypolicing.com/same-city-di...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The NYPD has an insane focus on gun related crime. Every gun crime is tracked at an executive level. There are daily inter-agency meetings that discuss _every_ gun arrest. Daily. 1,000 and counting. They treat gunshots like crimes. They have an entire detective unit dedicated to gang violence.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I like that our Baltimore Peanut Gallery on Twitter gets a shout out! We -- Me Kim, Mark, the Black Pirate, and Tony -- were a force for good, calling out the bad leadership of Baltimore at the time. Tony had to delete account before he went back to public service!

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Tony was right about Harrison, FWIW.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The L flag flying above Wrigley tonight

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Do people not realize this murder is preventable? We need to change our laws (slightly) and elect better/tougher prosecutors. I don't understand how this happens again and again, and people are like, "well, crime is down." This is predictable and preventable. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/n...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

"Man, 64, Is Fatally Beaten in a Subway Station After Chance Encounter" The murderer “still had anger issues,” said a rehabilitation counselor. And a long criminal history. And 4 arrests since June 21. He's obviously dangerous and not well, so… we release him till he murders?

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

From 2013 Southern District of New York | Twenty-Third Defendant Pleads Guilty In LIRR Disability Fraud Scheme | United States Department of Justice share.google/Quasx6QxxYAh...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It is scandalous that every big NYPD chief happens to be "disabled" when they retire. "Tax free 3/4 of his salery life time benefits... because of an ankle injury he received on Randall's Island while on duty last year." Bullshit. This is corruption. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/06/t...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I've taken enough moon pictures to know they never really work, but the moon was rising over Central Park and it was really beautiful, you'll just have to trust me.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"It's not a political party. It's a 'membership organization'." Whatever, dude. Meanwhile in the real world: "We ran a great DSA campaign and are using the Democratic Party line as a politic tactic."

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

From a NYC park bathroom today. Seems like a very fair request.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Why _does_ the left so casually celebrate cop killers? How does this not normalize political violence? I mean the BLA cop killers were _overtly_ politically violent. They killed cops. That should be more defining that "acupuncturist." A deep dive by Michael Moynihan. www.youtube.com/live/4_VFzl2...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Just because there's a greater longer-term trend doesn't make that *that* hard to tease out. I mean, it happened overnight. When have you ever seen an overnight reported "violent gun crime" reduction like this?

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Big year-to-year drops are always good. Here, too. But an _overnight_ drop of this magnitude? I can't think when I've seen that before. The only other times I've seen a dramatic overnight change was _up_, after civil unrest in 2015 Baltimore and 2020 in a lot of cities.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Now with 7 weeks of data on each side National Guard deployment in DC. Reported violent gun crime in DC is down 44%. Homicides during this period went down 22 to 11. (Last year during the same two time periods before and after August 11, there were 28 and 24 homicides and many more gun crimes.)

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

[Mamdani voter:] The DSA party isn't radical. He's a "democratic socialist." It's no different from Sweden or other mainstream western European style "socialist" parties and systems. [DSA press release:] LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS CUBAN REVOLUTION! SOLIDARITY WITH OUR BLACK PANTHER COP-KILLING COMRAD!

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

[Leftist:] I just don't understand how people can think the left supports violence, glorifies cop killers, and seeks a Marxist revolution. [Chicago Teachers Union:] Hold my beer.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It's tough to refute the lies from ideologues. Police abolitionists have big platforms and insist "the sky is green." Some people believe them. It demoralizes me to note that the sky is blue (and sometimes gray). But if not me, who? Mike Pesca picks up the slack. www.thefp.com/p/an-anti-co...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Having potential murder charges facing you is a big deal. IN the end, there's a nine page report, of which about 1,000 words are summary specific to his incident. (There's a lot of generic legal template.) 4 months. oag.maryland.gov/News/Documen... Also, there are some typos in the 2nd paragraph.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A guy wanted for murder is chased by cops, shoots at cops, get shot by cops. All on body cam. Why does it take four months to conclude "subject officers did not commit a crime." What new information was gathered in months two and three?

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This is the future liberals want.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I don't understand your greater point. Is it that crime didn't go down? Or that we're supposed to pretend it didn't because it didn't happen the right way? Regardless, you're either lying or mistaken. Homicides went down, too. 8 to 6. (Not that I'd make a statistical claim on such a low n)

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

There's no good choice for mayor of NYC. Mamdani is using every excuse to not take hard questions that would make him say what he believes. And I _want_ to like Sliwa, but he's anti immigrant and complaining here the buses are too slow... while being against bus lanes and congestion pricing. WTF?

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

$1 million a day was low balling it. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Imagine how much we could bring down crime if we put the same resources into policing. I mean, the National Guard standing around brought about a 35% reduction in violent gun crime. We could do much more with legal and constitutional policing. www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/a-be...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Good point. But this kind of thing, post deleted, seems to happen a lot more here.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

My issue (which may or may not be a potshot) is there's just less engagement here. And much of that is boring. On the plus side, there's less bad engagement. But my post here seem to all just go into a void. Less so on Twitter.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Heard of Daniel Penny? The white guy who restrained the black guy (who died) who was threatening people on the subway? Heard of Scotty Enoe? The black guy who stabbed and killed the black guy who was threatening people in the CVS? Both were acquitted. Correctly. But just compare the NYT coverage.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Congrats to the sixth graduating cohort -- and their families, and the faculty -- of John Jay College's NYPD Executive Masters program!

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I don't want to say you _have_ to buy Back from the Brink right now. But if you don't, you'll be waiting. "2 left in stock." Oxford University Press tells me, "We’re currently printing another 500 copies that are expected to deliver in mid-May." amzn.to/4cPxJWQ (There's always Kindle!)

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