(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…
Who Will Stop This Outrage?
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…
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 