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A Breath of Fresh Air I don’t know the chief in Eureka. I don’t know if Chief Andy Mills in…

Is Police Reform a Myth?

Ta-Nehisi Coates again caught my attention and thinking in his article last June in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations.” Now…

The development of uniformed, public police took place much more slowly in England than in the rest of Europe. Public…

Of the 500 posts I have written during the past four years, these are the top ten: 1. The Seven…

Five Hundred posts! Hard to believe. It was in the fall of 2011, as I was finishing up the final…

Policing a Democracy is Community-Oriented Policing: Accept no substitutes! In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a major…

Did Compstat inadvertently drive American police to squander years of public trust? Have departments who have embraced Compstat ended up…

Thinking About Police The above is a PowerPoint presentation of mine on “Thinking About Police.” Look at it and feel…

These are the most popular (visited) posts last week: This Chief Gets It Understanding Police Encounters Making Choices: The Moral…

According to an article in Police Quarterly, better-educated police officers resort less often to using force. “Weighing in on a…