Here are the seven most active posts on this blog during the past week; a week in which the lives of two black men were taken by police in questionable situations in Baton Rouge and a suburb of St. Paul, Minn. Videos of the events were seen, respectively, by 2.2 and 1.5 million viewers at the time this blog was posted. Violent protests erupted in those cities and many other urban areas of the country.
Only days later five officers were shot and killed by a sniper in Dallas while they were assisting citizens protesting the above-mentioned shootings.
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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Here are the seven most active posts on this blog during the past week; a week in which the lives of two black men were taken by police in questionable situations in Baton Rouge and a suburb of St. Paul, Minn. Videos of the events were seen, respectively, by 2.2 and 1.5 million viewers at the time this blog was posted. Violent protests erupted in those cities and many other urban areas of the country.
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 