Feds Trash the Problem Oriented Policing Center: Another Example of Anti-Intellectualism (among other things…) One of the push-backs I occasionally receive from my … More
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On Hiring a Chief of Police
One of the most important of public decisions any elected or appointed official will ever make will be this one. … More
A Question for Today’s Chief of Police: Whom Do You Serve?
A Question for Today’s Chiefs of Police: Whom Do You Serve? Who should police chiefs serve? Their organization or the … More
Is Improving Police an Impossible Task?
In 1960, when I first pinned on a badge, I was a “college cop”—on … 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
The Four Obstacles
THE FOUR OBSTACLES WHICH HAVED TENDED TO ARREST OUR NATION’S POLICE [An excerpt from the preface of the book Arrested Development: … More
Officer Schoolcraft — Why He Matters
Officer Adrian Schoolcraft – Why He Matters and Why You Most Likely Won’t Hear About Him Again Three years ago, … More
Should Cops Be Compassionate?
This week, James E. Causey, a columnist with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote about an interview he had with a … More
An Unusual Experience of Police Reform: The Republic of Georgia
Police reform in the Republic of Georgia seems to go against everything I know about reforming police (with the exception … More
Private Police: Has it come to that?
Private Police? Has It Come to That? In the June 20, 2012 issue of the Guardian, David Taylor-Smith, the head of … More
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 