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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Asks how successful have women and people who have liberal, socialist, and progressive viewpoints been in your agency?
Asks about their viewpoints on the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
See about finding out what is their record of violating people’s rights.
What is their record on disciplining officers who step out of line
Asks what their record is on white collar corporate crime?
Asks what is their record on hiring people with high IQs and how successful they are?
Asks them what have they done to keep the people with high IQs to stay with the department and not leave since many cops stated that police work is boring and repetitive which is one of their arguments why people with high IQs quit.
Asks how they deal with pressure from wealthy people, the business community, and the politicians to drop white collar, corporate crime cases or face the consequences for not doing so?
What do they do when the district attorneys won’t take white collar, corporate crime cases and refuse to fight for tougher white crime, corporate crime laws.
Are there any opportunities to deal with white collar, corporate crime?
Do they provide training to deal with white collar, corporate crime?
What are their views on white collar, corporate crime?
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Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 
Asks how successful have women and people who have liberal, socialist, and progressive viewpoints been in your agency?
Asks about their viewpoints on the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
See about finding out what is their record of violating people’s rights.
What is their record on disciplining officers who step out of line
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Good additions! Thanks.
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Loved it!
Very Good Questions
Keep us the Good Work
Merry Christmas to you and Yours
and Thanks for hanging in there
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Asks what their record is on white collar corporate crime?
Asks what is their record on hiring people with high IQs and how successful they are?
Asks them what have they done to keep the people with high IQs to stay with the department and not leave since many cops stated that police work is boring and repetitive which is one of their arguments why people with high IQs quit.
Asks how they deal with pressure from wealthy people, the business community, and the politicians to drop white collar, corporate crime cases or face the consequences for not doing so?
What do they do when the district attorneys won’t take white collar, corporate crime cases and refuse to fight for tougher white crime, corporate crime laws.
Are there any opportunities to deal with white collar, corporate crime?
Do they provide training to deal with white collar, corporate crime?
What are their views on white collar, corporate crime?
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