I know I have retired from active posting on this site, but I have to include this excellent interview with the former Minneapolis chief of police, Medaria Arradondo.
I had the privilege of talking with him during the Floyd Jones murder crisis. I was impressed by the values he has developed and maintained over the years. A good leader he is — in a most difficult era of American policing.
You might recall in my history that I served seven years as a street cop and detective in Minneapolis during my youthful years. I have to say that not much has changed over those many decades.
Minneapolis is a modern, innovative, Midwest city that has great wealth and potential. Somehow, all that is lost when it comes to its manner and style of policing.
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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Hi David, You have to read this article. I am utterly horrified. I had no idea police training allowed all this political shit! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/11/police-training-warrior-mindset-killology/
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It is amazing how we got so much potential to do good things and instead use it to keep doing bad things.
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