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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The greatest challenge in life is not wanting change but opening the eyes of the blind and getting the Mute to speak…. good work!
What gain to society is there when you feed the crumbs of your table to the poor under your banquet table and build an army of police officers to control the up rise?
I read in a book once, twice and three times that the results are not very good for the controlling ones at the top.
Only in a top down society do we hear so much talk about minimum wages. Those at the top don’t set limits like that over their lives and they are growing in numbers and living very well with their increases.
You heard people at the bottom talk about having better wages, but the upper crust ignored them and then they demand that the police deal in suppressing them and the police do the upper crust bidding. Yes, police work is affected by those decisions made at the top; however, the police can’t or are unwilling to make the connections plus having no backbone to stand up to the upper crust.
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 
The greatest challenge in life is not wanting change but opening the eyes of the blind and getting the Mute to speak…. good work!
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What gain to society is there when you feed the crumbs of your table to the poor under your banquet table and build an army of police officers to control the up rise?
I read in a book once, twice and three times that the results are not very good for the controlling ones at the top.
Only in a top down society do we hear so much talk about minimum wages. Those at the top don’t set limits like that over their lives and they are growing in numbers and living very well with their increases.
POLICE WORK is effected by those decisions.
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Unsolved Major Crime
You heard people at the bottom talk about having better wages, but the upper crust ignored them and then they demand that the police deal in suppressing them and the police do the upper crust bidding. Yes, police work is affected by those decisions made at the top; however, the police can’t or are unwilling to make the connections plus having no backbone to stand up to the upper crust.
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The backbone of police in America is our Constitution!
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Well the police don’t believe in the Constitution; otherwise, we would not be having all these problems.
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Some, not all!
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