[The following article I authored appeared in “The Progressive” magazine on November 4, 2025.] Local police must observe, document, and…
Make it Happen: More Women in Policing
Women in Policing: A Necessity For nearly six decades in policing and public life, I’ve watched a powerful truth unfold:When…
If You Can’t Understand the People You Police, You Don’t Deserve the Badge
Let’s stop tiptoeing around the obvious. You cannot hand legal authority — the power to detain, to use force, to…
Look in the Mirror
Are You a Model for Modern Policing? Why Not? Across our nation, policing stands at a crossroads. Public trust is…
A Call to Police Chiefs and Sheriffs
We are living through a constitutional stress test and it’s your leadership test. Our oath was never to a political…
Loathing in Chicago
(The following is a summary of an article last week by Jamiles Lartey and Geoff Hing of The Marshall Project…
Fear and Force in Chicago
And It’s Happening On Our Watch! In Chicago this week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) reportedly pointed a gun…
Turbulent History of the Politicized Minneapolis PD
Paradox: Echoes of Reform and the Minneapolis Police “Historian Yohuru Williams explores the history of reforming the Minneapolis Police and…
Dialogue Policing
I have always looked for creativity, innovation, and growth in policing — the continuous improvement Dr. W. Edwards Deming taught so powerfully in the…
A Tragic, But Probable Scenario
When Badges Confront Each Other A fictional scenario about accountability, restraint, and the uneasy future of democratic policing It began…
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 