Beyond the Badge: A Biography

[Note: Time marches on. As a mid-way octogenarian, I wanted to share my life with others so that what I…

Infidelity: The Moral Relapse of American Policing

Infidelity. Unfaithfulness to a moral obligation, trust, or duty; disloyalty. I write this in my mid-80s. I have practiced the…

[Note: I greatly enjoy getting comments from readers. Somehow, they are few and far between. Yet my November 18th blog,…

[The excerpted article below comes from a November 28, 2923 story in the New York Times by Natasha Frost, reporting from…

“To Protect and Serve…” Never forget that police have the opportunity to do good — to make bad things to…

[Note: Integrity matters — and matters greatly in policing. We all know that the policing function is effective and much…

Recently, one of my readers asked about the facts surrounding the death of George Floyd in the spring of 2020.…

[Note: As I have strongly written in the past, we the people need to REIMAGINE policing. The murder of George…

When Policing Goes Right A Personal Story and “Customer Feedback” As most aging, white people, I have had little contact…

I have been writing and commenting on police matters since 2011 after I retired from a 33 year career in…