How to Rate Your Local Police: A User’s Guide

David Couper, ,

How to rate coverHow to Rate Your Local Police: A User’s Guide for Civic, Governmental, and Police Leaders

Ferguson, Staten Island, Cleveland… What is a good police department?

Ever wonder how you can evaluate your police? How their practices can be rated? The questions you need to ask? I share my years of experience evaluating and improving police, and show you how you can evaluate police in your own community.

In this 50+ page book, I provide a narrative and checklist that you can use whether you are a practicing police officer, civic leader, governmental official, or concerned citizen. This book was a hit in the 80s when it was released. Now more than ever, this new and revised edition needs to be on your reading list.

During the next 30 days, I will be posting excerpts from the book. Towards the end there will be a special reduced-rate book offer on this weblog.

Stay tuned! And invite you friends and colleagues to follow this blog and communicate!

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Published by David Couper

I served over 20 years as the chief of police in Madison (WI), four years as chief of the Burnsville (MN) Police Department, and before that as a police officer in Edina (MN) and the City of Minneapolis. I hold graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota and Edgewood College in Madison. I have written many articles over my years as a police leader. After retiring from the police department, I answered a call to ministry, attended seminary, and was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church. After almost 30 years serving in and leading two Episcopal Churches in the Diocese of Milwaukee, I am "sort-of" in the process of retirement. Life is good.

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