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.

[Tal Fortgang @tal_fortgang]

5. They repeatedly write in support of "political prisoners" including Tarek Bazrouk (assaulted multiple Jews) and Elias Rodriguez (murdered two Israeli embassy staffers). Jakhi McCray (firebombed NYPD vehicles) is especially close to CUAD's heart.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

@HMDatMI Fox didn't write the headlines.
I read his stiff. I think he got it.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

What a story. Turns out it's even true.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

In 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.

An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.

His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S. Army anyway and served in the 442nd.

Fifty years later, he still said it plainly: "These were Americans."

On Saipan, Gabaldon was a scout with the 2nd Marine Regiment. Right after landing, he slipped off on his own and came back with prisoners. His commanding officer, Capt. John Schwabe, threatened him with a court-martial for leaving his post.

The next night, he came back with about fifty.

After that, they let him go out alone.

He crawled to the cave mouths in the dark and promised the people inside water, medical care, and that nobody would hurt them. Night after night, ten or twenty at a time, they followed him out.

On July 8, by his own account, about 800 came out in a single day. Schwabe remembered that day too. It was the day they tagged him the Pied Piper of Saipan.

Not everyone listened. At the cliffs, he begged a mother not to kill her child. He watched her throw the baby and jump. He was still talking about it fifty years later.

His Navy Cross citation says that on Saipan and Tinian he brought in "well over one thousand enemy civilians and troops."

Schwabe recommended him for the Medal of Honor. He received the Silver Star. Sixteen years later, after Hollywood made a movie about him, the Navy upgraded it to the Navy Cross.

He died in 2006 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

I am Japanese. Those caves were full of my people, frightened, starving, and certain that the Americans were monsters.

An American teenager walked toward them in the dark and offered them water.

On this Veterans Day, Japan should know his name.

[Darkblue714 🇺🇸 @darkblue714]

@japan_nobunaga @dianemgoldstein Footnote: Guy Gabaldon’s father was a LAPD officer.

[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.