In keeping with the release of a free copy of “Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism and Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation’s Police,” I am putting out my earliest book (1982) “How to Rate Your Local Police” at no charge.
It was revised and more added in 2015 and aimed at being a “user’s guide” for civic leaders, governmental officials and concerned citizens. It is also a template for police leaders to evaluate their own organizations.
A number of police chiefs have told me over the years that they give a copy to their mayor, city manager, and city council members so that will begin to understand what makes for a good police department and police leader.
I hope you enjoy it and it helps you in your important work.
You can find your FREE downloadable pdf copy HERE.
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.
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Thanks Dave. Something I have maintained an interest in since many years ago you welcomed me into the profession. Those “standards” are which I look at Departments I may come into contact with today. I am proud to expond on those “standards” when social contacts become aware of my career and ask the inevitable questions.
Charlie
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Thanks Dave. Something I have maintained an interest in since many years ago you welcomed me into the profession. Those “standards” are which I look at Departments I may come into contact with today. I am proud to expond on those “standards” when social contacts become aware of my career and ask the inevitable questions.
Charlie
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Thanks, Charlie! Let’s continue to preempt on!
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