Let’s Hear It Once More About How To Train Police

Training matters. In fact, it’s a critical factor in improving our nation’s police. Maybe I can’t get police leaders in…

Is It Too Much To Expect?

Is it too much to expect that police would develop less-than-lethal ways to take persons into custody who are threatening…

After reading this recent article in New York Magazine (May 19, 2013) about the stop and frisk controversy in New…

I recently ran across a talk I gave nearly 15 years ago. It was on the 25th Anniversary of hiring…

“As the fog of our perpetual ‘war on terror’ descended again after the Boston Marathon bombings, veteran police chief David…

In 1960, when I first pinned on a badge, I was a “college cop”—on…

SELECTING POLICE OFFICERS “My vision for police is that they can be fair, effective and humanitarian. They can protect our…

BOOK SUMMARY: Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to…

MAYBE FIFTY YEARS WASN’T ENOUGH. It’s been that long since the day a shiny badge was first pinned on my…

In 1987, my wife and I were both serving as police leaders. I was chief in Madison and she was…