Quality Cops Start With Quality Leaders The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police: Leadership and Improvement Methods This workbook grew … More
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User’s Guide to Police Performance
How to Rate Your Local Police: A User’s Guide for Civic Leaders, Governmental Officials, Concerned Citizens, and Police My earliest … More
My Case For Improving Our Nation’s Police
American Policing Doesn’t Have to Stay Arrested Part memoir, part Madison history, and part policy handbook, Arrested Development draws on my more … More
Model Use of Force Policy
Rethinking the Rules of Engagement: Moving Beyond Graham v. Connor The legal baseline for police use of force in the … More
Moving Past Graham v. Connor: Who is Raising the Bar?
The Stanford Law School Model Use of Force Policy explicitly addresses the core limitation of Graham v. Connor (1989): that Graham establishes only the constitutional baseline of “objective reasonableness“—a … More
What Has Happened to Once Good Police Departments?
The Gap Between Policy and Practice in American Policing A working paper The Paradox A department can do almost everything … More
Learning Hard Lessons
Gaining Deeper Perspectives on Culture, Systems, and Change The first of my “Hard Lessons” occurred during the Deming-influenced quality improvement … More
The Fatal Flaw in Modern Police Reform
Why Graham Keeps American Police Stuck! Across the country, progressive municipal police departments pride themselves on progressive transformation. They invest … More
How Police in America Got Hijacked
From Guardians to Warriors: How 9/11 Changed American Policing — and Why It Hasn’t Stopped I took my first oath … More
Building an Effective Strategy and Coalition
IF EUROPE’S POLICE CAN, WHY CAN’T WE? A Systems-Thinking Case for Improving Police Use of Deadly Force [Executive Summary: Constitutional baselines … More
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 