“I am worried, very worried. I am worried we will forsake our quest for social, economic and racial fairness and that…
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Since 2011, “Improving Police” has published over 900 posts, received 400,000 visits from 130 countries around the world, and now…
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“It is important to realize there is a big difference between bad people who do bad things that hurt people…
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As a student and practitioner of public leadership for many years, I find the election of Donald Trump, to be…
From the U.K.: A “Professionalized” Police Needs to Maintain Core Skills
Higher education for Police has been one of the main themes of this blog. Here’s what’s happening in the United…
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The members of PERF (Police Executive Research Forum) proposed in their “30 Guidelines on Police Use of Force” that the…
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis In preparing to teach a new course on campus this…
An Epidemiological Approach to Crime
A good friend of mine who is quite familiar with crime and criminal justice alerted me to this article that…
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 