IF EUROPE’S POLICE CAN, WHY CAN’T WE? A Systems-Thinking Case for Improving Police Use of Deadly Force [Executive Summary: Constitutional baselines…
Welcome to “Improving Police.” Police Improvement is Possible. It Begins With You!
— Observations and experience of a veteran police chief from a 33-year career. — Studying and reflecting on the nature…
The Workbook That Built a Better Police Department
Quality Cops Start With Quality Leaders The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police: Leadership and Improvement Methods This workbook grew…
User’s Guide to Police Performance
How to Rate Your Local Police: A User’s Guide for Civic Leaders, Governmental Officials, Concerned Citizens, and Police My earliest…
My Case For Improving Our Nation’s Police
American Policing Doesn’t Have to Stay Arrested Part memoir, part Madison history, and part policy handbook, Arrested Development draws on my more…
Model Use of Force Policy
Rethinking the Rules of Engagement: Moving Beyond Graham v. Connor The legal baseline for police use of force in the…
Moving Past Graham v. Connor: Who is Raising the Bar?
The Stanford Law School Model Use of Force Policy explicitly addresses the core limitation of Graham v. Connor (1989): that Graham establishes only the constitutional baseline of “objective reasonableness“—a…
What Has Happened to Once Good Police Departments?
The Gap Between Policy and Practice in American Policing A working paper The Paradox A department can do almost everything…
Learning Hard Lessons
Gaining Deeper Perspectives on Culture, Systems, and Change The first of my “Hard Lessons” occurred during the Deming-influenced quality improvement…
The Fatal Flaw in Modern Police Reform
Why Graham Keeps American Police Stuck! Across the country, progressive municipal police departments pride themselves on progressive transformation. They invest…
How Police in America Got Hijacked
From Guardians to Warriors: How 9/11 Changed American Policing — and Why It Hasn’t Stopped I took my first oath…
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 