The Importance of Police Accountability

Whenever police use deadly force there are always questions: “How do we really know what happened?” How can we trust … More

Coffee With a Cop

“Building trust with the community one cup at a time.” The following information comes from the e-newsletter of the COPS … More

Police Leaders: Now here’s your chance to see if you can lead a great police department further toward excellence — … More

One of the interesting fables I used I used in teaching leadership over the years was “Upstream-Downstream,” by Don Ardell (1975). … More

Last week, I wrote about Chief Chris Burbank who heads up the Salt Lake City Police Department. I described him … More

I have never met the guy but it seems like we came out of the same school of policing. Here’s … More

[Sometimes it helps to look back and try and find out why something that seemed so important, so necessary, years … More

Years have passed, but I remember that night. My partner and I had spotted a stolen car one dark night on … More

Sabine Lobitz and I wrote the following article for our nation’s police leaders in the late 1980s to draw attention to … More

Last night, the Madison Board of Police and Fire Commissioners began their process of selecting a new chief of police … More