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.
- Why Police Matter
- How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison
- Can the Late Dr. Deming Help Police Out of their Crisis?
- Saving Lives of the Mentally Ill
- The Force-Trust Relationship
- Police Use of Deadly Force: Time for Discussion
- A Most Difficult Act
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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. 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 Mazomanie.
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