From Policy Link: Communities across the country are rising up and demanding that policymakers reallocate budgets by divesting from the…
Socially Contracting a Dream
While talking with a number of clergy in Minneapolis about their city and their police (of which I was once…
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…
