The Top Posts of 2018

improvingpoliceJanuary 4, 2019January 3, 2019Uncategorized

Why Police Matter
2. Making Choices: The Moral Aspects of Policing
3. The Principles of Policing (1829)
4. How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison
5. Principles of Leadership
6. Hazing and Bullying in the Police Academy
7. Rules of Engagement (ROE)
8. My Philosophy of Policing
9. Courage: It’s More Than You Think
10. What Should We Expect From Our Police Officers?
11. Peel’s Principles: A Modern Translation
12. Policing and the ISO

Thanks to all of you for a great year! This is the beginning of our 8th year. This blog and its resources have been running since 2011. Over 500,000 views and 3,000+ followers keep me going!

Let’s press on in 2019 as we work together to help our nation’s police improve and set a standard for policing a free society! Happy New Year!

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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 improvingpolice