“Reimagining Safety,” a new (2024) documentary on Amazon Prime. In it, ten experts discuss how policing and incarceration create more…
Three Powerful Words
Three words for police leaders to enable personal and organizational transformation and continuous improvement 1. Passion To be deeply committed…
Fatal Police Pursuits
To Pursue or Not? [Note: I am posting a trending note today from Chuck Wexler, Executive Director of my professional…
Using Physical Force
Sociologist Egon Bittner (1921-2011) defined the role of the police as “a mechanism for the distribution of non-negotiably coercive force employed in…
Policing a Free Society
There’s a link below to a recent presentation I made about policing a democracy. I hope you find it helpful…
Burnsville Tragedy!
Burnsville Police Officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, along with Paramedic Adam Finseth, were killed in the line of duty…
Georgia’s On My Mind
Why Georgia’s on my mind — what I learned while working with police in Georgia and why I now have…
Best Police Blogs!
In my office in the early years… Pictures of Dr King and Mahatma Gandhi with the captions, “No man [sic]…
How to Police a Free, Diverse, and Democratic Society
Envisioning a Powerful, Community-Oriented Future in Policing This coming Friday (February 16), I will be in Stockbridge, Georgia, just south…
Addictive Hyper-Vigilance in Policing
One of the things I have always recommended to my officers (and those considering policing as a career) is that…
