Selecting Police

SELECTING POLICE OFFICERS “My vision for police is that they can be fair, effective and humanitarian. They can protect our … More

Summarizing “Arrested Development”

BOOK SUMMARY: Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to … More

MAYBE FIFTY YEARS WASN’T ENOUGH. It’s been that long since the day a shiny badge was first pinned on my … More

In 1987, my wife and I were both serving as police leaders. I was chief in Madison and she was … More

I first described “Seven Seeds for Policing” at the annual meeting of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, DC … More

My first book, How to Rate Your Local Police, was published by the Police Executive Research Forum in 1983. It was a … More

MANY YEARS AGO, I was a young police officer, just out of the academy. My partner and I, also a … More

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted … More

This is blog number 100! Since I began this journey of “getting the word out” about how police can and … More

In the 1980s, the Madison (Wisc.) Police Department moved forward with a new leadership style replacing the old, military-based, coercive … More