Rethinking the Rules of Engagement: Moving Beyond Graham v. Connor The legal baseline for police use of force in the … More
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The Fatal Flaw in Modern Police Reform
Why Graham Keeps American Police Stuck! Across the country, progressive municipal police departments pride themselves on progressive transformation. They invest … More
Building an Effective Strategy and Coalition
IF EUROPE’S POLICE CAN, WHY CAN’T WE? A Systems-Thinking Case for Improving Police Use of Deadly Force [Executive Summary: Constitutional baselines … More
Watershed: A Poem
When Arguments Fail, Poets Must Act We are living through a watershed moment in our nation—a time when the “acrid smoke” of … More
A Tragic, But Probable Scenario
When Badges Confront Each Other A fictional scenario about accountability, restraint, and the uneasy future of democratic policing It began … More
On State of Policing 5 Years After the Death of George Floyd
The following is a deep discussion and analysis into what has been happening in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and /St. … More
Police Killings in U.S. Rise!
The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of George Floyd in 2020. … More
Five Years After George Floyd
Governing Magazine, in a lengthy article, does a great job this month of reviewing the state of policing in America … More
Cease Fire! 1,000 Annual Deaths by Police Are Far Too Many!
[Note: The following news column was submitted to three leading American news sources. USA Today stepped up and published what … More
Improve Police Training, Use of Force, and the Blue Subculture
What needs to be done to improve our nation’s police? I have reviewed three recent articles which, in my opinion, … More
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 