Branding Your Department: Can You Do This?

Building a Solid Police Brand In the business world we hear a lot about “brand;” that is, the perception customers have…

What Holds Policing Back?

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

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Police: Survey Those Who Use Your Services This is a very important subject. How do we know how we are…

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

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

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

The police department in Columbia Heights, Minn. is a small department, less than 50 sworn officers. It experienced a large…

Police and Public Attitudes How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison Leadership is Managing Culture New Year’s…