What Happens When Law and Decency Collapse? As a retired police leader, I am outraged that our local government and…
How Deming Changed the Way I Saw Police Work
In my years as a police chief, I searched for a way to make policing both more humane and more…
Soldiers Must Not Become Our Police
Sending combat troops into our nation’s cities to “fight crime” is like using a hammer to perform heart surgery—brutal, reckless, and…
Police Are Constitutional Officers—Guardians of Our Republic
After more than thirty years in policing and an equal time in ministry, I have come to believe that the…
Police Reform is Not Enough
[Ed, Note: I missed the article below in 2020 and recently, as an Atlantic subscriber, found it. I have reprinted…
Local Police Must Resist Federal Overreach on Immigration
Across the country today, local police find themselves at a dangerous crossroads. On one side stands their sworn duty—to uphold…
Growing Better Together
There a Right and Wrong Way of Improving Police in America Recently, a former police chief and current criminal justice…
Beware: They May Be Coming for You
As a former police chief, I have always believed that the rule of law is the bedrock of our democracy.…
What We Can Learn About Resistance
Memorial to the White Rose student resistance group at the University of Munich (1943–1945). Ordinary young people risked their lives…
“Truth, Justice and the American Way!”
As a boy during World War II, I was raised to believe America was a shining light in a dark…
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 