Leading? Don’t Forget to Tell Your Stories

     Storytelling is a wonderful and effective way to teach a point. When I went around the country teaching Quality … More

Leadership is Speaking Out

The prison population in our country is the world’s highest, with more than 1.5 million people behind bars. Within that number … More

Ramsey on Policing

   Charles Ramsey is a good example of top leadership in action… about upholding the values of our society. It … More

Once More: Policing is Community Policing

Community Policing is how a free society is to be policed. Period. Why is there still resistance to it? Why do … More

Analyzing a Police Shooting

  A 23 minute high-speed chase involving two passengers, later found to be unarmed. 137 shots fired by police in … More

Customer Surveys for Police

        A colleague of mine sent me a customer survey that Plano, Texas was using on Survey Monkey (See it HERE). … More

A Broken Culture in Need of Repair

When I was a young Marine, the old-timers used to tell us we were in the “new corps” (which was, of course, not … More

Another Tragedy

“To each there stands his own day; to all the time of life is short and irretrievable; but to extend … More

An Argument for Smart and Compassionate Policing

I argued strongly in my book, Arrested Development, and in this blog, for intelligent (smart), rational, data-based, controlled and compassionate … More

More From Albuquerque

This is why Step Four in my book on how to improve our nation’s police is “TRAIN AND LEAD.” As … More