Envisioning a Powerful, Community-Oriented Future in Policing
This coming Friday (February 16), I will be in Stockbridge, Georgia, just south of Atlanta, talking to police officers and their leaders about what I’ve learned about policing and restoring public trust and confidence.
We will primarily be talking about my book, “Arrested Development” (3rd ed. 2021) and topics that i have blogged on this site during the past decade (see below).
Stay tuned as I connect with Stockbridge police who created a new police department in this city two years ago.
Let us press on…
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- Here’s a description of the day and how to register…
How to Effectively Police a Democratic, Free, and Diverse Society
David Couper will be discussing the key principles and fielding questions from his book, “Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Racism, Protest, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation’s Police,” 3rd ed. (2021), and how to improve the practice of policing including these topics:
1. Selecting, hiring, training, and caring for police officers and non-sworn employees.
2. Emotional Intelligence: Why it’s more important than IQ.
3. Becoming a Servant Leader: How to lead police today and build teams.
4. The “Four Obstacles” to police improvement (anti-intellectualism, violence, corruption, and discourtesy).
5. How to get closer to those you serve.
6. Rebuilding community trust.
7. “Why customer” feedback matters.
8. Twelve Principles of quality policing.
9. The Seven Necessary Steps to improve police.
10. Procedural Justice and why it is important.
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Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 