Over the years, poetry was a large part of my inner life. Recent years have found me sharing my deepest … More

The Seven Steps Needed to Improve Our Nation’s Police The Seven Necessary Improvement Steps to Improve Our Nation’s Police These … More

Sue Rahr, former elected Sheriff of King County, Washington, past director of state-wide police training, and friend of mine, recently … More

A most pertinent, timely and historical article in the Baltimore Sun by friend and colleague Karl Bikel had been published … More

View the incident HERE. Another iconic event in police malpractice. Black officers at fault? Why would Black police do this … More

President Biden recently called for police officers in our nation to be retrained, asking them, “Why should you always shoot … More

Two Oakland, Calif., police officers and a lawyer for one of the men at a 2002 trial at which the … More

[My Note: As a police chief, I tended to support police unionization of my officers in order to give them … More

How 11 Cops See America — Crime, Guns, Race, and Bad Cops New York Times “America in Focus” staff members, … More

As we enter the year 2023, let us seek new opportunities and possibilities for policing a free society… Few poemsi’ve … More