A Higher Standard For Policing

As a current member of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) I was invited to attend this meeting in Washington … More

Go Back to Go Forward

Our national culture seems to be strongly forward-driven and that’s important. And I tend to respond to its influence by … More

How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison Why Police Matter Principles of Leadership Twelve Steps Forward Making … More

I have recently had the pleasure to make acquaintance with John Mutz, a retired captain of the Los Angeles Police … More

Proposing A Knowledge Exchange Among Police [The following proposal is the kind of actions professionals do. While the police field … More

I am excited about this new book by Malcolm Sparrow. He’s one of my favorite police academicians and will be … More

Top Posts (Last Week) What If It’s the Barrel and Not the Apples? Why Police Matter How a Traffic Offense … More

With regard to the often criminal use of deadly force by police we hear that the cause is “bad apples” … More

Training Police in the New Leadership In April, 1987, Sabine Lobitz and I wrote an article that appeared in … More

One of the things I learned very early on in my police career was that the training I received in … More