A Call to Police Chiefs and Sheriffs

We are living through a constitutional stress test and it’s your leadership test. Our oath was never to a political … More

Loathing in Chicago

(The following is a summary of an article last week by Jamiles Lartey and Geoff Hing of The Marshall Project … More

Fear and Force in Chicago

And It’s Happening On Our Watch! In Chicago this week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) reportedly pointed a gun … More

Turbulent History of the Politicized Minneapolis PD

Paradox: Echoes of Reform and the Minneapolis Police “Historian Yohuru Williams explores the history of reforming the Minneapolis Police and … More

Dialogue Policing

I have always looked for creativity, innovation, and growth in policing — the continuous improvement Dr. W. Edwards Deming taught so powerfully in the … More

A Tragic, But Probable Scenario

When Badges Confront Each Other A fictional scenario about accountability, restraint, and the uneasy future of democratic policing It began … More

Who Will Stop This Outrage?

What Happens When Law and Decency Collapse? As a retired police leader, I am outraged that our local government and … More

How Deming Changed the Way I Saw Police Work

In my years as a police chief, I searched for a way to make policing both more humane and more … More

Soldiers Must Not Become Our Police

Sending combat troops into our nation’s cities to “fight crime” is like using a hammer to perform heart surgery—brutal, reckless, and … More

Police Are Constitutional Officers—Guardians of Our Republic

After more than thirty years in policing and an equal time in ministry, I have come to believe that the … More