A Time to Boldly Lead

During last month’s annual meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Charles Ramsey gave the opening address…

Little Rays of Hope

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

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

I starting thinking about how a posting for a Madison chief of police should read in order to…

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

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

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

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

One of the most important of public decisions any elected or appointed official will ever make will be this one.…

Note: The following article comes from a talk I gave in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1993 when I…