I am pleased and excited about having the opportunity in February to work with Stockbridge, a new police department recently created near Atlanta, GA and working with their leader, Frank Trammer and his team. The community is small (30,000), diverse, but interested in fielding effective, high-quality police in their city.
I have posted earlier that I believe the future of improving policing in this country will be through the efforts of smaller police agencies like Stockbridge; that is, cities committed to supporting innovative, effective, and constitutional policing. These cities should be supported by our federal government to create “model police agencies” from which the rest of the country could learn. They could become places of excellence where others can learn “how-to-do-it” and the host agencies around the country become “learning organizations.“
Read my book.
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 
Yay! So glad you found a workable arrangement. You should keep a diary
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The “Blue Courage” program offers some hope. I am pleased the book still generates some desire to improve policing…
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This sounds like an interesting project David. The first question I would ask is “What do you want from your police?” See if there is a consensus, that’s the biggest problem in policing a free society.
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Agreed. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an authentic, respectful, community-wide response to that question?
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