“The Best of Our Knowledge” An Interview with Jim Fleming

As many of you know, I was Chief of the Madison, Wisconsin Police Department for more than twenty years. Though … More

What Needs to Be Done

I stumbled across an article from 2005 from sociology, my old field of study. At least one sociologist … More

Where did I get these crazy ideas about police? Over 40 years ago, when I took over the command of … More

More on “jukin’ the stats. I first talked about this problem on this blog on May 24, 2012. And it’s … More

Well, it’s been almost thirty years since the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) published my first book, “How to Rate … More

Talking it Through: Improving police-youth relations I have been rather harsh with the NYPD on stop and frisk. Now this … More

I have advocated the absolute importance of police officers being respectful to citizens when making stops and conducting other … More

Important to change police tactics, says ex-police chief By David Couper, June 15, 2012 As a former police chief, … More

What is CompStat and why is it causing problems for police? CompStat (short for COMPuter STATistics or COMParative STATistics) is: … More

Special Report from the United States Institute of Peace on Police Corruption What Past Scandals Teach about Current Challenges This new … More