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Police Like a Security Guard?
There is, unfortunately, a big difference between police services in a gated community and those delivered in most of our…
A New Trend Emerging?
I like to look for emerging trends. In “Arrrested Development,” I describe how 19th century wagon train leaders had to…
Militarizing Minds
“The police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile last year, belongs not only to the small percentage of officers who…
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This is About Integrity: You Need to Think About It!
INTEGRITY: An adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty. INTEGRITY has always been part of the police…
The Subculture of Policing
In a stunning article in 1978, sociologist John Van Maanen wrote: “The collective myth surrounding the rule-bound ‘policeman [sic] as…
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What I Learned When I Listened to My Officers
Eight years into my career with Madison, I requested a six-month leave of absence without pay. I was tired and everyone…
Applied Systems Thinking
Systems-thinking comes from the field of system dynamics and allows people to understand social systems in the same way people…
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 