How 11 Cops See America — Crime, Guns, Race, and Bad Cops New York Times “America in Focus” staff members,…
A Poem
As we enter the year 2023, let us seek new opportunities and possibilities for policing a free society… Few poemsi’ve…
A Personnel Crisis: Let’s Not Squander the Opportunity!
Okay, there’s a crisis in American policing, but as we know a crisis is a mix of danger and opportunity.…
Cops and Unions
[My Note: As a police chief, I tended to support police unionization of my officers in order to give them…
“I Was A Capitol Police Officer on January 6th!”
By Police Officer Caroline Edwards From The New York Times, Dec. 18, 2022, 6:00 a.m. ET [My Note: Too often the mistakes…
What Happened in Boise?
What Can We Learn From the Dismissal of a Police Chief? One of my close colleagues, Mike Masterson, retired from…
An Open Letter to Our Nation’s Police Leaders
I don’t know when or where I first picked up the idea that mistakes are learning opportunities, but I did.…
Two Years After George Floyd’s Murder, What Happened to the Movement?
[Editor’s Note: The following article coincides with my thinking about what happened over two years ago when the murder of…
“We’re Not Coming Back…”
Join Tom Mosgaller as he travels to visit me on my farm in south-central Wisconsin. As many of you may…
Why Uvalde Matters
Uvalde matters because this is the time when our nation’s police need to restore public trust; without it, police cannot…