Most Active Posts

davidccouperJuly 10, 2016July 10, 2016Uncategorized

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.

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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. 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. View all posts by davidccouper