The following is my radio interview with Ann Fisher of WOSU radio in Ohio on August 11th. Among other things, we talked about what needs to be done to move out of the crisis.
Community-oriented policing as the WAY to police a democracy was one of them — not just a “program” but the actual way police services are delivered.
http://radio.wosu.org/post/race-relations-america
Check out these earlier posts of mine on C.O.P:
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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. After 25 years leading two Episcopal Churches in Portage and North Lake, Wisconsin, I now serve as Associate Pastor in a growing, dynamic, and Spirit-filled Lutheran congregation in nearby Black Earth. After losing Sabine, my wife of 40 years to cancer, I met Christine, a retired nurse and widow. We were blessed to find love again and married in 2021.
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Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 
Reblogged this on e-Roll Call Magazine.
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Hello Mr. Couper.
Am proud to share that am a police officer from Kenya. I follow your blog and I admit I share your philosophical perspective on police and policing. Your ideas are very progressive and forward oriented. All police should borrow from these ideas.
Am also happy that I have just received a copy of your nice book namely “Arrested Development” through a friend living in the States (alongside others on Bill Bratton). I had to make such arrangements just to own them. At a scan, I love the following:
“The lack of a foundation of rigorous academic training makes it difficult for police leaders to digest any kind of research or case study. This is the continuing and oppressive effect of anti-intellectualism in the police field and why it remains a major obstacle.”
Very right indeed.
Keep up the good work.
Bruno.
http://www.smartpolicing.wordpress.com
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Thanks so much for the comments. It is gratifying to hear from other officers around the world who strive to police a constitutional democracy! Keep up the fine work and do stay in touch.
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Oh, I must share this as I come (sadly) to the conclusion of this nice read. Writing on how Transformative Leadership is cheaply doable, Chief acknowledges and notes in conclusion:
“But, it will take time. It will require bold leadership from the police themselves. It can’t begin in the squad room: it has to begin with the chief. A mayor cannot do it, nor can a city council. Citizen committees cannot do it … If police are to realize their potential as Constitutional officers, their leaders would have to take and be the first step. Perhaps one of them is reading ‘Arrested Development’.”
What a challenge! My long-held truths on the future of police policy and practice have been vindicated and well reinforced.
Thank you…
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You are very welcome, Bruno. Press on!
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