To mark this event I am offering a FREE download copy of my book,Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption, and the Seven Necessary Steps to Improve Our Nation’s Police (2012).
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 calling for police improvement (for example, How To Rate Your Local Police, and with my wife, Sabine, Quality Policing: The Madison Experience). After retiring from the police department, I answered a call to ministry, attended seminary, and was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church. At the present time, I serve a small church in North Lake (WI), east of Madison. Sabine and I have nine adult children, eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She is also a retired police officer and we both continue active lives.
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Congratulations! You show how one can pursue one’s interest even after retirement, and how policing is not just a job but a vacation.
Thank you Chief Couper for the copy of *Arrested Development*. Congratulations on your 600th post.
I read all and use many of your posts for my research in preparation for the Calif. POST Executive Development Course. The 2 week course is offered to police chiefs, sheriffs, DAs, captains, and lieutenants throughout Calif. I spend 8 hours discussing relationships and roles of the police, various models of policing, strategic planning for law enforcement, the value and need for crime analysis, and critical incident management. That’s a full day!
I’ve spent a career teaching and promoting COPPS throughout the U.S. and in many foreign countries. We are in challenging, but exciting time for our profession. I’m blessed to remain a part of our ongoing professional growth.
Keep up the good work David!!
*John Welter* *Anaheim Chief of Police (Retired) * *San Diego Assistant Chief of Police (Retired)* *Founder and Board Chair,* *Orange County Family Justice Center* *150 W. Vermont St. Anaheim, Ca. 92805*
Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption, and the Seven Necessary Steps to Improve Our Nation’s Police (2012).
Congratulations! You show how one can pursue one’s interest even after retirement, and how policing is not just a job but a vacation.
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Thank you for making this available.
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Thank you Chief Couper for the copy of *Arrested Development*. Congratulations on your 600th post.
I read all and use many of your posts for my research in preparation for the Calif. POST Executive Development Course. The 2 week course is offered to police chiefs, sheriffs, DAs, captains, and lieutenants throughout Calif. I spend 8 hours discussing relationships and roles of the police, various models of policing, strategic planning for law enforcement, the value and need for crime analysis, and critical incident management. That’s a full day!
I’ve spent a career teaching and promoting COPPS throughout the U.S. and in many foreign countries. We are in challenging, but exciting time for our profession. I’m blessed to remain a part of our ongoing professional growth.
Keep up the good work David!!
*John Welter* *Anaheim Chief of Police (Retired) * *San Diego Assistant Chief of Police (Retired)* *Founder and Board Chair,* *Orange County Family Justice Center* *150 W. Vermont St. Anaheim, Ca. 92805*
*(W) 714-765-1645* *(C) 714-497-6424* *jwelter007@gmail.com *
*http://www.orangecountyfamilyjusticecenter.org/ *
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John, thanks for the encouraging note. You make my heart glad! Press on, a brighter world for police and citizens lies ahead.
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