Are you wondering how you can help someone who is a police officer or plans on being one? Perhaps a community activist that is trying to improve their local police agency?
The answers to these questions can be found in the third edition of my book which is my commentary on over thirty years as a police officer and leader coupled with another two decades of thinking about, writing, commenting and teaching my fellow Americans how they can improve their police and how police themselves can improve.
The third (and final) edition of “Arrested Development” is available now on Kindle. The paperback edition will be available soon.
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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