The Good Cop

[The following is an essay from a long-time friend and colleague, Chuck Wexler, Executive Director of the Police Executive Research…

Creative Ideas

The following creative ideas come from Djohariah Singer from Middleton, MD. She is someone who has spent a lifetime in…

Time to Wake Up!

How are society’s rules to be enforced? We can make sure they are backed up by threat of force (domination)…

Moving from Good to Great

When it comes to police reform, improvement, or re-imaging, I have a sense that I have been on this “bus;”…

Here’s What We Need to Do Now!

I have some suggestions as to what police need to do, and do it quickly, if we are take advantage…

Stand Down, Re-Imagine, Re-Assess, and Re-Engage!

As a young Marine, I was driving the captain of my ship to a nearby Naval Air Station when we…

Can’t You Hear Us?

“It’s time we stop / Hey, what’s that sound? / Everybody look know what’s going down…” Steven Stills and Buffalo…

Go, Tell it On the Mountain!

These are trying times for police in America. Is this the “tipping point” when racism is purged from our nation…

Imagine an Unarmed Police

The Case for Unarmed Police “Disarming police does not have to be seen as impossible. It can be something to…

Still Remembering Herman (especially today)

For almost 50 years, I have been able to meet or talk with Herman Goldstein on an almost daily basis.…