Peter Moskos

Police focused (+ transit & pigeons). The bouncer blocks quickly, sometimes just for bad vibes.
Favorite book: "Back from the Brink":

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

I just realized I have the biggest non-verified account on Twitter.*

*Except for the others. But at least I am still forced to stick to the 280 character limit, for my benefit and yours.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

The level of corruption in and around Trump is staggering.
https://t.co/JlT0u14zC7

[Clue Heywood @ClueHeywood]

the bride requested Ella Fitzgerald but I thought she said Edmund Fitzgerald and boy this is a long, awkward first dance

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The Failure to Protect Gaza's Children: 12-year-old Mennah, the daughter of my friend Na'ama, was denied entry today to a makeshift educational tent in Gaza's humanitarian zone because teachers deemed her clothing insufficiently "modest" and demanded she wear a full head-to-toe covering. When she refused, they allegedly accused her of lacking morals and good behavior, then punished her by forcing her to remain outside in the sun until her mother could be contacted.

This is not education. It is coercion, humiliation, and ideological indoctrination imposed on a child. It is especially alarming that such spaces may be supported, directly or indirectly, by international humanitarian funding provided by Western governments and taxpayers. No child should be excluded from learning, shamed, or disciplined for failing to conform to extremist interpretations of religious dress.

These educational tents must be subject to rigorous monitoring, safeguarding standards, and independent oversight to prevent the abuse, neglect, and radicalization of children. Gaza's children need safe learning environments that promote dignity, tolerance, and opportunity, not fear, intimidation, or ideological conformity.

There is little hope for meaningful educational recovery if children remain exposed to actors who prioritize dogma over their welfare. The international community should focus on creating secure, professionally supervised educational spaces with clear child-protection standards and accountability mechanisms, ensuring that every child can learn free from coercion and abuse.

Shame on any government, NGO, aid agency, or donor that funds educational programs without demanding transparency, oversight, and robust child-protection safeguards. Humanitarian assistance should protect children, not enable environments where their rights and dignity can be violated.

[Visit Sault Ste. Marie @VisitTheSault]

Starting tonight at 1 AM, we’ll be sharing the real radio transmissions from the night the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior, 50 years ago.

These posts will follow the timeline as it happened, from the first reports of rough seas to the ship’s final transmission.

We share them in remembrance of the 29 men who were lost, and in respect for all who work the Great Lakes.

Transmissions from: https://t.co/cE4Ednwct7

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

@katiewr31413491 No. He's not released.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

I can believe he's not mentally fit to stand trial. But then why was ever released from state custody on prior detentions? If you're not mentally fit to stand trial, you were not fit to be released to roam the streets.
The system is broken.
https://t.co/VHykEk9R0y

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

@WhoisJennyxia I'm in AOC's district. It's pretty nice.

[Gothamist @Gothamist]

NYPD curbs spitting and idling tickets amid complaints about quality-of-life crackdown

https://t.co/6s0enuAs14

[Harry Siegel @harrysiegel]

This obvious breakdown connects in my mind at least with the DoE reportedly refusing to share information with the NYPD about the students who Javits Frimpong’s father says were suspended for bullying his son shortly before he was murdered on his way to school

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

A broken system: "At least 10 complaints with school higher-ups about Mohassib, including over his troubling “blank stare’’ demeanor and him displaying his gun necklace to the young students at PS 200. But the complainants were rebuffed every time." https://t.co/JazaGiYbtE

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

Dems really need to stop being on the side of "migrants who have serious criminal histories and are in the United States illegally." Being pro-criminal, regardless of legal status, is not a vote winner. Also, these criminals are preying on other migrants! https://t.co/IdTeVza5K9

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

@PoweredByComedy What other ways?

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

Chicago mayor is positively Trumpian in his thinking he can just baldface-lie with a straight face and people will believe him.
I mean, getting rid of Shotspotter wasn't some below-the-radar issue in Chicago. And his opposition to gun shot detection was very clear.

[... @abluecanary]

🧐 Oh really ...
Mayor Says He’s ‘Always’ Favored Gunshot Detection Technology As Voters Back Its Return https://t.co/MwLd6WuM5w

[Paul Manicone @JustRightPD]

"We are the 911" There is more than one way to disgrace the uniform. Cops threaten to arrest woman for jaywalking. Here's my take:

1) Jaywalking has been decriminalized via local law # 98 passed by the NYC Council in October of 24. Cops need to know the law in order to enforce it.

2) The NYPD needs to hire officers who can actually communicate in English.

3) Although this has not been confirmed, according to social media posts, these officers are Asfak Mahmud, and Mohammed S. Ahmed, both from the 17 Precinct and both have less than three years on.

4) Ahmed has another complaint for illegally seizing property from March of this year. Seems he might be making this a habit.

5) Cops should not have threatened to seize her dog. At most, this would have resulted in only a summons (she did provide ID in the longer video).

6) Shave the beards. Call me old school but cops should be clean shaven.

Just because we support police, doesn't mean we can't call them out when they're wrong. I don't just blame the cops, I blame the lower hiring standards and the bosses who allow this to happen.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

As somebody who lives in front of a fire hydrant at which cara constantly idle....

[Anthony LaMesa @ajlamesa]

I absolutely think people should get tickets for idling. You're forcing everyone else to deal with your noise and air pollution.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

A child and a donkey together.
The world holds nothing sweeter.

When my final day comes, let me be watching my grandchild like this, and I will close my eyes softly.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

I have a history PhD from Oxford and try to support all of my historical claims with strong evidence, particularly when regarding the president of the United States.

But based on a comprehensive review of 250 years of American history, it is simply irrefutable that Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt president in U.S. history when it comes to using the office to enrich himself and his family.

Here are the facts, and why there isn’t even a close second.

Trump’s own federal financial disclosure reported more than $1.4 billion in 2025 income from family crypto ventures, including about $635 million from his meme coin and nearly $800 million from World Liberty Financial. Reuters separately estimated that the family added at least $2.3 billion to its fortune from crypto ventures after Trump returned to the White House.

The clearest example of how Trump used the office came in May 2025. The 220 biggest holders of his meme coin were invited to dine with the sitting president at his private golf club. The coin jumped more than 60 percent when the dinner was announced. To get a seat at the table, you had to buy and hold a product that made the president money. Trump turned access to the presidency into a sales pitch.

The foreign dealings raise an even more serious question. Four days before Trump took office, an investment vehicle backed by a UAE national security official agreed to pay $500 million for nearly half of World Liberty Financial. The Wall Street Journal reported that $187 million of the initial payment was directed to Trump family entities.

Trump is clearly not the first United States president to be guilty of corruption, but the size and scale of his malfeasance put him in a league of his own.

Under Ulysses S. Grant, whiskey distillers and federal officials pocketed money by cheating the government out of liquor taxes. Under Warren Harding, Interior Secretary Albert Fall took bribes in exchange for leasing federal oil reserves. Richard Nixon had a personal tax scandal, but his defining abuse of presidential power was the Watergate cover-up, an effort to protect his hold on office. LBJ’s political connections helped turn a small Texas radio station into a family broadcasting empire.

By September 2025, less than eight months into Donald Trump’s second term, he and his family were roughly $5 billion richer than they had been around the 2024 election, according to Forbes. In comparison, a reasonable estimate is that all 44 other U.S. presidents combined added about $250 million to their wealth while in office, adjusted to today’s dollars. That puts the Trump family’s gain at about 20 times the estimated combined total for all other presidents over the course of two and half centuries.

The election results were, at least in part, a clear repudiation of this staggering and historically unprecedented corruption. Congress now has a mandate to investigate, follow the money, pursue the recovery of all ill-gotten gains, and enact enforceable safeguards so that no president can ever again use the White House as a vehicle for personal enrichment.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

@jmp_nyc Haven't watched it yet

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

@markbernhard55 @nut_history That explains Harry Carey

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Traditionally, that happens in early January. Not November.