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…
Institutional Drift
Part Two: What is Institutional Drift? Navigators have long worked by a rule of thumb called the one-in-sixty rule: a…
Off Course: A Four-Part Series for Improving Police
Part One: Can a Good Police Department Lose Its Way? I have spent more than sixty years in and around…
Sanctity of Life: Linchpin of Policing a Democracy
Our nation’s founding document does not begin its famous list with liberty. It begins with life. “Life, liberty, and the…
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…
