Top Blogs Last Week!

HERE ARE THE TOP FIVE BLOGS VISITED LAST WEEK ON THIS SITE: 1. Making Choices: The Moral Aspects of…

Police Shootings: Do We Have the Right Data?

With regard to police shootings, do we have the right data to make decisions? Perhaps we don’t. Take a look…

Here’s an 18-slide power-point presentation on policing a free society. Feel free to use it. It really explains my…

Top Posts (the past week) on this site! 1. What Policing Should Be…

In Ferguson, police are trying to improve while operating under crisis conditions. In Portland, police are trying to improve while…

Body cameras will not save American policing nor will they help establish the trust and support that police need in…

In keeping with yesterday’s blog, “What Policing Should Be,” here’s two more important “is/is nots”…

WHAT POLICING SHOULD BE One of the exercises we used to do in training was to define something as what…

Courage in policing is sometimes more than going down a dark alley looking for a prowler. Sometimes it has to…

“Improving Police” now has over 300 posts on a variety of suggestions, issues, practices (both current and historical) that,…