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1. How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison 2. Why Police Matter 3. Principles of Leadership 4. Should Cops Be Physically…

Trouble in the Ranks

I find trouble in the ranks of my new department… An excerpt from book, Arrested Development: “Within a few weeks after…

A Most Hopeful Gathering

“Even if you are 100% right, democracy requires compromise.” — Barack Obama The Public are the Police and the Police…

What Needs to be Done

All that I have blogged over the years can be summed up in the following which addresses what needs to be…

Can Deadly Force Be Restrained?

One of the major struggles between police and community members is often police use of deadly force. J. Scott Tomson…

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Should Cops Be Physically Fit? Making Choices: The Moral Aspects of Policing How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket…

Lost and Found: A Young Officer’s Notebook (1962)

The other day I ran across one of my notebooks from my early days in policing. I don’t know where…

Efficiency review of UK police

What’s going on in the U.K? — Efficiency review of UK police.

Peacekeeping

When I took the Madison job in 1972, I felt that I had a clear mandate from the police commission…