SOME IMPORTANT COMMENTS FROM OUR NATION’S (and Canada’s) POLICE LEADERS THEY PROVIDE HOPE! Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) Town Hall…
Top Five Posts
Top Posts (from the past week) 1. Looking at the BIG Picture: Protest and Police 2. Making Choices: The Moral…
Thinking Outside the (Blue) Box
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT POLICE BE ABLE TO THINK “OUTSIDE THE BOX!” And by that I mean not only THINKING…
Police Instagrams in Iceland
The following is an excerpt from a recent on-line article by Whitney Blair Wyckoff (and some recent police Instagrams) from…
Learning From Ferguson — Preventing Others
A good question for the people of Ferguson and St. Louis County is “Where do we go from here?” An…
Albuquerque P.D. Accepts Federal Consent Decree
The Justice Department has reached a settlement with the City of Albuquerque over excessive use of force by the Police…
What Nelson Mandela Learned About Leadership in Prison
In 1999, shortly before Thanksgiving, I flew to South Africa to attend the third Parliament of the World’s Religions in…
What is a Good Police Department?
Prof. Sam Walker has done a good job of defining something every citizen should know — what is a “good”…
Five Top Posts Last Week
TOP POSTS (this past week) 1. Police Wages: Often An Embarrassment 2. Why Police Matter 3. Hazing and Bullying in…
Looking More Deeply Into Ferguson
A recent article by Dan Berry of the New York Times pointed out some of the deeper impacts on not…
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 